Public health: broken and needs fixing
Mowing the lawn but not fixing the roof.Posted on June 2, 2008 7:42 AM • 7 Comments •
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The Editors of Effect Measure are senior public health scientists and practitioners. Paul Revere was a member of the first local Board of Health in the United States (Boston, 1799). The Editors sign their posts "Revere" to recognize the public service of a professional forerunner better known for other things.
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Health care:
"Doctor, I think I have a code." "It's just some bug ."
Getting debugged in Second Life.Posted on May 13, 2008 1:50 PM • 3 Comments •
On not beating back the flu
What happens when you adopt a devil may care attitude toward our public health system.Posted on March 11, 2008 7:10 AM • 7 Comments •
Outraged judge orders punitive damages against health insurance company
Chemotherapy is expensive? Too bad. We have to control costs.Posted on February 24, 2008 4:28 PM • 20 Comments •
Health care in Canada: the emergency room
What's it like under universal health care?Posted on February 10, 2008 3:35 PM • 26 Comments •
Encouraging critical employees to get seasonal flu vaccine
Twisting arms or asking please?Posted on January 27, 2008 4:02 PM • 9 Comments •
Lies the candidates tell
Republican candidates can't tell the truth, even if our lives depend on it.Posted on January 9, 2008 3:57 PM • 39 Comments •
How about Medicare for all?
Medicare works.Posted on December 27, 2007 4:45 PM • 43 Comments •
Big Pharma's blind profits compromise
Genentech's grudging arrangement allows elders to get treatment preventing blindness.Posted on December 24, 2007 7:19 AM • 7 Comments •
US sponsored Afghan hospital a hell hole
Abandoning the unborn in AfghanistanPosted on November 23, 2007 4:14 PM • 9 Comments •
National health system in Australia: heading for a fall?
Health system in Oz headed down the drain. What's in the sewer?Posted on November 4, 2007 4:33 PM • 32 Comments •
Let them eat anthrax vaccine
Ten million doses of a vaccine we don't need.Posted on September 30, 2007 2:17 PM • 13 Comments •
Gene test on flu prognosis?
The tech fix, again.Posted on August 28, 2007 7:32 AM • 14 Comments •
Flu in Australia: tears and all
To remind us that statistics refer to people.Posted on August 20, 2007 4:30 PM • 8 Comments •
Flu in Australia: no tears
People with the tears wiped away.Posted on August 20, 2007 7:22 AM • 14 Comments •
Medicaid, Medicare and real terrorism
Making us secure and insecureSecurity and insecurity.Posted on August 18, 2007 7:26 AM • 9 Comments •
US health care: waiting for Godot
Comparing a wait time of one year in the US to 3 or 4 weeks in Canada doesn't seem like much of a contest.Posted on July 26, 2007 3:34 PM • 55 Comments •
When the health care system is a lemon
Heart warming? Or just heartburn?Posted on July 25, 2007 4:29 PM • 9 Comments •
Covering no child's behind
No child left insured.Posted on July 16, 2007 4:39 PM • 8 Comments •
Michael Moore puts Sanjay Gupta into intensive care
Dr. Sanjay Gupta gets nailed for journalistic malpractice.Posted on July 13, 2007 4:58 PM • 91 Comments •
The US: a nice place to live, but don't get sick
Maybe it's not the best health care in the world, but at least it's the most expensive.Posted on June 19, 2007 3:42 PM • 39 Comments •
Presenteeism: spreading disease at work
Staying home when sick.Posted on January 27, 2007 7:03 AM • 33 Comments •
Universal health coverage genie gets out of the bottle
One of the world's most backward nations (the US) is finally thinking seriously about universal coverage.Posted on December 27, 2006 5:12 PM • 29 Comments •
Overwhelmed in Australia
An Emergency Department in Australia gets hammered.Posted on November 28, 2006 5:03 PM • 18 Comments •
"How's your back?"
Tip O'Neill knew forty years ago what CDC just found out.Posted on November 19, 2006 5:35 PM • 1 Comments •
Wound infections in Iraq and here
The festering wound infections of Iraq and what isn't being done about them.Posted on June 24, 2006 7:15 AM • 4 Comments •
Prescription drug plan. A symptom that needs treating.
Older couple gets help with their drug plan. Disaster almost ensues. And guess what?Posted on June 23, 2006 6:37 AM • 25 Comments •
Since you asked . . .
If they didn't want to know, they shouldn't have asked. In 2003 Congress passed a bill creating the Citizens' Health Care Working Group. The bill was the infamous Medicare prescription drug "benefit." The Working Group was something else. They just recommended universal health coverage.Posted on June 10, 2006 7:00 AM • 28 Comments •
