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Universal Healthcare: A Matter of Political Will (Updated)

Christine Pelosi | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Congress, Cbo, Nurses, Universal Healthcare, Pregnancy, Doctors, Insurance Companies, 2008 Election, Health Care, Barack Obama, Pre-Existing-Condition, Obama Health Care Reform, Politics News
Christine Pelosi

Elections have consequences: we voted for universal health care and intend to get it done.

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What Is A Nuclear Medicine Examination?

Helene Pavlov | Posted 08.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Pavlov, Medicine, Doctors, Nuclear Medicine Examination, Living News
Helene Pavlov

There are no major aftereffects of a nuclear medicine examination. Rarely, localized pain or a bruise may occur at the site of injection. As can occur with any needle stick.

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Forget Health Care Reform, We Need a Health Care Transformation

Nick Hanauer | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Doctors, Medical Costs, Health Care, Healthcare, Politics News
Nick Hanauer

The health care system is so far gone we don't need reform -- we need a disruptive business transformation.

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Here's Why Nice Work Pays Much Better

Christina Patterson | Posted 08.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Salaries, Work, Politicians, The Arts, Wages, Bankers, Doctors, Happiness, The Rich, Business News
Christina Patterson

Politicians basically agree with the bankers. They think that the most highly educated people in our society are the ones most likely to operate on a base level of animal greed.

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Breaking It Off With Your Doc

Dr. Jon LaPook | Posted 08.02.2009 | Living

Read More: CBS Doc, Doctors, Personal Health, Living News
Dr. Jon LaPook

How do you know when it's time to call it quits with your doctor? Here are ten reasons to make you think twice about continuing with the status quo.

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11 Common Health Myths, Busted

nytimes.com | Tara Parker | Posted 07.31.2009 | Living

Read More: Sinus Problems, Women's Health, Men's Health, Nutrition, Milk, Five Second Rule, Doctors, Health Tips, Health Myths, Don't Swallow Your Gum, Superstitions, Sugar, Arthritis, Living News

Myths, half-truths and wives' tales persist in medicine. Sometimes doctors and nurses even believe things that aren't true or at least are unproven. T...

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Obama: Doctor-Choice Is Vital To Health Care Plan

AP | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Health Care Choice, Doctors, Health Care, Health Care Reform, Reform Choice, Health Care Choice, Barack Obama, Politics News

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says Americans will still be able to choose their doctors under the health care changes he is seeking. The ...

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MY Healthcare Problem

Abby L. Ferber | Posted 07.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Sickness, Private-Health-Insurance, Orthopedics, Voice Mail., Drugs, Health Insurance, Single Payer Health Care, Clinic, Stress, Private Health Care, United Health Insurance, Private Health Insurance, Single-Payer, Women's Health, Single-Payer National Health Insurance, Universal Health Care, Single Payer System, Unpaid Labor, Anxiety, Health Clinic, Health Care, Family, Women, Single Payer, Doctor's Office, Gender, Work, Health, Health Care Reform, Hospitals, Single Payer Plan, Single Payer Healthcare, Doctors, Real Time With Bill Maher, Real Time, Paul Begala, Bill Maher, Living News
Abby L. Ferber

Health insurance companies are not in the business of making healthcare easier for us; they are in business.

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Primary-Care Doctor Shortage May Undermine Health Care Reform Efforts

Washington Post | Ashley Halsey III | Posted 07.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Doctor Shortage, Doctors, Health Care, Primary Care, Health Care Overhaul, Politics News

As the debate on overhauling the nation's health-care system exploded into partisan squabbling this week, virtually everyone still agreed on one point...

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Doctors Rx at AMA: Eat Local, Organic

Samuel Fromartz | Posted 07.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Heathy Eating, American Medical Association, Doctors, The New Yorker, Organic Food, Food Inc., Health, Green News
Samuel Fromartz

Industrial food producers are already in a tizzy over the documentary Food Inc., but I bet they didn't expect to be facing the nation's doctors.

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On Health Care, Americans Trust Obama And Dems Far More Than GOP: Poll

Huffington Post | Sahil Kapur | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Doctors, Poll, Gallup, Health Care Reform, Republicans, Insurance Companies, Heath Care, Democrats, Politics News

When it comes to reforming the U.S. health care system, Americans are more confident in Barack Obama (58%) and Congressional Democrats (42%) than Cong...

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Nurses on TV: HawthoRNe is Strong Stuff

Barbara Ficarra | Posted 07.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Nusing Dramas, Barbara Ficarra, Doctors, Nurses, Tv, Healthin30.Com, Tnt, Hawthorne, Entertainment News
Barbara Ficarra

I'm delighted to see that the new TV series HawthoRNe avoids most of the media stereotypes of nursing, portraying a nurse character that is strong, determined, smart and assertive.

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Who Is the Most Important Stakeholder in Health Care?

Roni Zeiger | Posted 07.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Treatment, Quality of Care, Participatory Medicine, Health, Peter Orszag, Patients, Physicians, Barack Obama, Doctors, Evidence-Based Decision Making, Health Care Reform, Health Care, Health Care Costs, Doctor/Patient Relationship, Evidence-Based Medicine, Personal Health, Living News
Roni Zeiger

Consumers need to be part of the health care conversation and doctors and patients alike need better access to basic data about what works and what doesn't.

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Thank You, Bill Maher, For Asking Where in the World is Barack Obama and What is He Going To Do About Healthcare?

Anne Dunev | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Big Pharma, Debt, Socialized-Medicine, Car Accidents, America, Restless Leg Syndrome, Exposure to Chemicals, Lobbyists, Cheney, President Obama, Donald Rumsfeld, Restless-Leg-Syndrome, Fat, Health Insurance, The Matrix, Dick Cheney, Television, National Debt, Insurance, Vice President Dick Cheney, Washington, Universal Health Care, Cheney Torture, President Bush, Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Vice President, Michelle Obama, Lindsay Lohan, Bankruptcy, Lobbying, Surgery, Washington DC, The-Matrix, Chemicals, Capitalism, Kodak, Don Rumsfeld, Toxic Chemicals, Dumb as Hell, Pharmaceutical Companies, Bill Maher, Pharmaceutical Industry, Donald Rumsfeld Torture, Health, Caveat Emptor, Prescription Drugs, Doctors, Florida, Prescription Medication, Vice President Cheney, Politics News
Anne Dunev

Most decent people cannot conceive that anyone would profit from knowingly harming others. That is the flaw in capitalism. And that is one reason that evil can exist.

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A Doctor's Tips for Surviving Your Hospitalization

Dr. Johnny Benjamin | Posted 07.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Medical Care, Hospitals, Doctors, Nurses, Health Care, Health, Living News
Dr. Johnny Benjamin

Every day in the hospital is another opportunity for a complication, infection or human error to strike. Do everything within reason to limit those opportunities.

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How To Talk To Your Doctor

nytimes.com | Jane E. Brody | Posted 07.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Doctors, Personal Health, Medicine, Wellness, Health, Living News

What do you want from your doctor, especially if you have a serious or life-threatening illness? Researchers who conducted interviews a few years a...

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Asperger's Syndrome (AS) Or Typical Male Behavior (TMB)?

Emily Bracken | Posted 06.28.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Marriage, Mozart, Differences Between Men and Women, Autism, Doctors, Bill Gates, Asperger's Syndrome, Al Gore, Husband, Bob Dylan, Comedy, Communication, Asperger's, Comedy News
Emily Bracken

Now, I don't mean to belittle those with Aspies-as it's known in the lay-community, but to me, these "symptoms" sound a lot like the characteristics of your average, meat-eating American male.

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What Do Patients Really Want?

Barbara Ficarra | Posted 06.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Patient Advocacy, Barbara Ficarra, Doctors, Health 2.0, Health, Doctor/Patient Relationship, Daniel Sands MD, Ix, healthin30, Living News
Barbara Ficarra

Patients don't just want to engage with doctors and nurses via social networking sites and new technologies. They also value face-to-face connection, collaboration and respect.

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The Conversation

Barbara Coombs Lee | Posted 06.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Hospice, Compassion & Choices, Doctors, Dying With Dignity, Death, Living News
Barbara Coombs Lee

Patients who had talked with their doctors experienced a more peaceful, pain-free end of life than those tethered to the tubes and machines meant to extend their lives.

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Old Drug, New Drug . . . Red Drug, Blue Drug?

James S. Gordon | Posted 06.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Psychiatry, Holistic, Depression, Mindbody Medicine, Complementary Medicine, Natural Approach, Psychology, Ssri’s, Drug-Free, Ssris, Mind Body Medicine, Pharmaceutical Industry, Antidepressants, Prescription Drugs, Meditation, Doctors, Pills, Mind-Body Medicine, Unstuck, Green News
James S. Gordon

This letter of mine appeared in The New York Times yesterday (in somewhat shortened form), under the title, "Alternatives to New Drugs." I thought yo...

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Is the Insurance Industry Getting Behind Comparative Effectiveness Research?

Arlene Holt Baker | Posted 06.13.2009 | Home

Read More: Big Pharma, President Obama, Research, Health Care Costs, Health Care Reform, Doctors, Barack Obama Health Care, Health Insurance, Labor Unions, Health Care, Home News
Arlene Holt Baker

This week many watched as the president joined with the largest associations of insurers and doctors to acknowledge the excessive costs of health care...

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Medical Boards: What They Do and Why They Matter

Barb Johnston | Posted 06.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Doctors, California, Health Policy, Health Care, Medicine, Medical Board, Living News
Barb Johnston

You can have good health insurance, live in a community with state-of-the-art facilities, and yet none of that matters if you can't find a doctor.

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How to Live On $0 A Day: Know Your Healthcare Options

Lesley Stern | Posted 05.31.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Google, Humor, Health, Swine Flu, Prescription Drugs, Sore Throat, Doctors, Health Insurance, Vodka, Healthcare, Allergies, Satire, Comedy News
Lesley Stern

With all the advances in healthcare, science and technology, these days you really don't need a doctor.

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Advances in Cancer Care You Can Count on

James S. Gordon | Posted 05.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Mind-Body Connection, Mind.Body.Soul, Health, Meditation, Doctors, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Health Care, Wellness, Living News
James S. Gordon

There is no silver bullet for most cancers, or sure cure for those whose cancers have advanced. But creating a comprehensive program that includes diet, exercise, stress management, and genuine support.

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"Main Street" Health Care Reform: Pay Cash, Bid for Discounts

Kari Henley | Posted 05.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Pricedoc, Facebook, Concierge Medicine, Health Care, Seattle, Kari Henley, Health Care Reform, Doctors, Patients, Medicine, Living News
Kari Henley

Last week, I opened a discussion about our nation's struggles with health care. My heart went out to the comments from readers, who have life threaten...

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