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The Bipartisan Health Care Summit is live on YouTube right now
You can watch the Bipartisan Health Care Summit live on YouTube: The Bipartisan Health Care Summit Filed under: BrainStuff Tagged: health care, health care reform
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The problem with health care in the U.S. – Two graphs that tell the story
These two graphics are interesting because they tell the same health care story from two different angles. The first looks at current health care costs in the U.S. compared to other developed nations,...
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The New York Salt Ban – Absurd or smart?
New York City is proposing that salt be banned from restaurant meals: Chefs Call Proposed New York Salt Ban ‘Absurd’ Some New York City chefs and restaurant owners are taking aim at a bill introduced...
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Good Question – What is in today’s healthcare bill?
On Sunday, March 22, 2010, the house passed its final version of the health care reform bill (HR 4872, text is available here). The stated goal of the legislation is: “to provide affordable, quality...
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Public Service Announcement – Sit-ups and Crunches are destroying your back
According to doctors, if you want beautiful abs this summer, sit-ups and crunches may not be the best way to accomplish the goal: Stop Doing Sit-Ups: Why Crunches Don’t Work The problem is summarized...
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How to lower your blood pressure
High blood pressure is one of those things that is incredibly common, and incredibly expensive to the health care system. According to this page: How many Americans have high blood pressure? About one...
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Fun facts about rising health care costs in America
The idea of the “Fun Facts” series is to highlight fun, interesting facts about a topic that are revealed in an article. The following facts about health care might be more fun if they didn’t hit so...
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Public Service Announcement – In 10 years, you have a 50/50 chance of having...
According to this article, half of all Americans could have diabetes in 10 years, if current trends continue: Half of Americans Could Be Diabetic by 2020 Ten years from now, more than half of the U.S....
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How Proton Therapy Works – great for brain tumors and prostate cancer
There are several traditional ways to treat cancer: Surgery – cut out the cancer Chemotherapy – poison the cancer cells Radiation – kill the cancer cells with radiation (see Cyberknife, but also done...
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A new look at health care reform in the United States
For those of us living in the United States, we know that our health care system is broken. We know it is broken in a thousand different ways. This is a recent and most telling example: Premature labor...
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