Report Shows How $700B in Waste Can Be Cut Annually From U.S. Healthcare Bill
When Peter Orzag, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget suggested that $700 billion in waste could be trimmed from the U.S. healthcare budget, many people thought he was nuts. But a report from Thomson-Reuters identifies specific...Key Steps to Prevent Obesity in Early Childhood
The prestigious Institute of Medicine (IOM) has issued a new report, Early Childhood Obesity Prevention Policies, that outlines the key steps needed to prevent obesity in children from birth to age 5. The physical effects of obesity from “Methods of...Why do Americans die younger than Britons?
According to a recent article in BBC News (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14070090) Americans are falling behind other countries in life expectancy. In this article the BBC reports on recent research by Dr. Ali Mokdad at the University of Washington. The...
6th Search for the Healthy City 2011
The sixth Search for the Healthy City study tour was held in Italy, September 1 – 11, 2011, in beautiful Florence and Tuscany. During this residential seminar participants discussed classics of medical history and public health and visited healing and cultural...New Release Available in Bookstores
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