Health Care: What Should a Populist Do Now?
Conclusion
The most common response to the suggestion that private contracts could be useful in reforming the health-care system for the benefit of ordinary Americans is the observation that people—ordinary Americans in particular—cannot reasonably be expected to read, let alone understand and compare, the multiple contracts they would confront. This point, however, while valid, is beside the real one, which is to give adequately subsidized consumers meaningful choices with respect to the cost and content of their future health care and enough reliable help in making them that they can be reasonably content with their ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 1, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
How public libraries help build healthy communities
This blog was originally posted by Brookings on March 30, 2017.
By Marcela Cabello, Brookings Research Assistant, and Stuart M Butler, Brookings Senior Fellow – Economic Studies
They say you can’t judge a book by its cover. Increasingly in the United States, you also can’t judge a library’s value to its community by simply its books. Let us explain.
In a previous blog post, we’ve noted the importance of “third places” in strengthening communities – meaning those places that are neither one’s home (first place) nor workspace (second place). A range of such third places, from churches to beauty salons,...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - March 31, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
The Field Museum Uses CT Scans to Visualize Egyptian and Peruvian Mummies
Literally thousands of years ago, the Egyptians and Peruvians would mummify the dead as a way to honor them and prepare them for the afterlife. For centuries, scientists were stumped as to how to examine mummies and their physical properties without unwrapping the body. Yet, in the last ten years,researchersat both the Field Museum in Chicago and the American Museum of National History have been using CT scans to observe the mummies ’ anatomy in a non-invasive way.1977 was the first year a mummy was analyzed via CT scan, a meretwo yearslater after the medical technology was invented. According to astudyfrom the Universit...
Source: radRounds - March 31, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
What's Popular at #CNS2017?
Memorywins again!Word cloud for 835poster titles at CNS 2017.The 2017Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting will start tomorrow, March 25. To no one ' s surprise, memory is the most popular topic in the bottom-up abstract submission sweepstakes.In contrast, the top-down selections of theCognosenti are light on memory, with a greater emphasis on attention, speech, mind-wandering, and reward.Word cloud for 16 titles/abstracts in fourInvited Symposia.The member-generatedSymposium Sessions are once again memory-centric, but with the key additions of speech, learning, information, and oscillations.Word cloud for 43 title...
Source: The Neurocritic - March 24, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs
Making health social: Friends and family as part of the health care team
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“We’ll stop by McDonald’s once I get out of the hospital,” Arturo told his brother. Arturo (not his real name), was 21 years old and had just been diagnosed with diabetes. He and his brother loved fast food, McDonald’s being one of their most frequent haunts. Unfortunately, this new diagnosis was likely to change that.
This was Arturo’s first health problem, ever. He had a few days of being extremely thirsty but needing to urinate every hour or two. Then, for about a day he couldn’t keep anything down. Vomiting, his belly aching, he came into the ER with his brother.
I admit...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - March 15, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: David Scales, MPhil, MD, PhD Tags: Behavioral Health Caregiving Health care Managing your health care Prevention Source Type: blogs
