- Another form of drug insurance.
- Brain tumor vaccine?
- The Uninsured in SE PA.
- How you raise prices matters.
- Do small businesses support increasing taxes on millionaires?
- Expanding role of PAs.
- ACA and HRSA.
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Get a workout for your brain cells by reading these articles.
- Mandates vs. free-riders.
- Is income inequality really increasing?
- Drug-resistant malaria.
- Relative size of the ACA’s Medicaid expansion.
- Truth, Lies and Controversy.
- Where do people go when they drop out of the labor force?
- Why Mark Cuban is full of it.
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- Blood test with no blood?
- When should a city declare bankruptcy?
- The Republican Health Plan.
- Healthiest counties in every state.
- Do smoking bans decrease drinking in bars?
- Does being promoted make you healthier?
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- AARP releases its Guide to Health Reform.
- How is the Health Reform paid for?
- The world’s first euthanasia clinic.
- Golden rule of organ donation.
- Will Obamacare end health insurance as we know it?
- Who is Jon Gruber?
- The $1200 basic blood test.
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On the verge of the Supreme Court’s momentous decision regarding health care care reform, it is important to take a minute to examine what most Americans think. A recent poll finds mostly what we already knew: people like their health insurance, but don’t like ObamaCare. Surprisingly, most people (65%) favor changing Medicare to a voucher-based system. This could either be a real result or just an indication that people support the current Medicare Advantage program.
Specific results from the March 2012 Reason-RUPE public opinion survey are presented after the jump.
- eRx decreases errors by 60 percent.
- CBO: ACA effect on employer-provided insurance.
- Effectiveness of Pap Smear screening: U.S. vs. Netherlands.
- Gingrich to States: Resist implementing health insurance exchanges.
- Disease mongering.
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- Color-codes surgery.
- China’s most important infrastructure project.
- EMRs increase doc orders for imaging and lab tests.
- Rich get richer.
- The future of education. Part 2.
- The end of Cato?
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- Is there a health penalty of China’s rapid urbanization?
- How do physicians determine the length of a visit?
- Cell phones vs. Health Care.
- Financial incentives matter.
- Cal State to offer online courses.
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- Team Chemistry.
- Medical uses of abused drugs.
- How the smart get rich.
- The waiting room principle.
- MiniBid.
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Drug-makers have had little success gaining FDA-approval for diet pills. According to The Economist:
“It has been 13 years since the FDA approved a prescription diet pill. That drug, Roche’s Xenical, has notorious gastrointestinal side-effects. The FDA rejected Vivus’s Qnexa in 2010 over concerns for the safety of pregnant women and the quickening of patients’ heart rates.”
This may soon change…or maybe not:
“A committee advising America’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommended that it approve Vivus’s diet drug, Qnexa. However, the pill’s long-awaited final approval may not come until April, if at all. The announcement mostly served as a reminder of what a struggle it is to turn fat into gold.”
Diet and exercise are the key to losing weight. Pills can make you lose weight, but with what side-effects? Remember that cigarettes are a well-known appetite suppressant, but you don’t see doctors prescribing obese individuals a pack of Marlboros.
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