The most high-profile health crisis of 2009 was certainly the outbreak of H1N1 – the swine flu virus that has claimed almost 10,000 lives, according to the World Health Organization. The worldwide pandemic was on the front page of every major news outlet for months as people struggled to realize the impact of the first [...]
Filed under: News on December 17th, 2009 @ 12:57 pm
Tagged with: global, health, innovation, medical
By its end, 2009 will be remembered politically for the struggle to overhaul the way Americans receive medical care. So far, it has exposed many flaws in our political world, most notably the ever-growing divide between conservative and liberal values.
Obviously, the job of changing health care in a country with such a large population is [...]
Filed under: Healthcare, News on August 21st, 2009 @ 4:35 pm
Tagged with: debate, discussion, government, health, health care, insurance, media, medical, reporting, spin, town hall meetings
After years of hearing about the prudence of self-exam, and the routine screening for almost every type of cancer, including breast, ovarian, prostate, and others, new opinions are coming to light on the subject that brings this thinking into question.
One factor in this debate is the general costs applied to the healthcare systems as a [...]
Filed under: Healthcare, News on July 17th, 2009 @ 12:19 pm
Tagged with: costs, effective, efficient, fundamental, health, healthcare, medical, medicine, routine screenings
‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.