From Calm Leadership, Lasting Change
By NANCY F. KOEHN
Rachel Carson, who warned of pesticides’ toll on nature in “Silent Spring” 50 years ago, offered an indelible example of the power of individual action.
Ronald F. Pollack of the consumer group Families USA sees potential benefits, and problems, with the multistate insurance.
The Obama administration will soon take on a new role as the sponsor of at least two nationwide health insurance plans that will be offered to consumers in every state.
Rachel Carson, who warned of pesticides’ toll on nature in “Silent Spring” 50 years ago, offered an indelible example of the power of individual action.
The Agriculture Department has lowered its estimate of annual sugar consumption to around 80 pounds a person from nearly 100 pounds, reshaping the debate over sweeteners.
While the Food and Drug Administration regularly makes reports about drugs and medical devices public, it does not do so for dietary supplements like energy drinks.
To encourage more doctors to provide primary care, why not tax them at the lower rate assessed on some income of hedge-fund and private-equity managers?
Enrollment in the program grew only modestly as well, but that may change as millions of people are due to become eligible in 2014 under the new national health care law, a survey found.
Tens of thousands of people with chronic conditions and disabilities may find it easier to qualify for home health care, nursing home stays and outpatient therapy.
A provision of the law requiring members of Congress to use the new insurance exchanges has inspired a barrage of political advertising that some call misleading.
In a new approach to combating prescription painkiller abuse, the federal government is focusing on the middlemen between drug makers and the doctors and pharmacies that dispense drugs.
The bill, which allows the procedure during the first trimester for any reason, opens the way for one of the most sweeping abortion rights laws in Latin America.
In an apparent bid to reclaim relevance and support, Prime Minister Dmitri A. Medvedev came out in support of the proposed ban in Russia, where close to a third of the population smokes.
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Unless we start allocating health care resources more prudently, the exploding cost of Medicare will swamp the federal budget.
Seun Adebiyi — an Olympic hopeful, Yale Law School graduate and leukemia survivor — is trying to start a public cord-blood bank in Nigeria.
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