Improvements in treating depression could lead to broader benefits in other health outcomes.
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If Circumcision Rates Keep Falling, Health Costs and Infections Will Spike
As more and more states’ Medicaid programs cut coverage for circumcision, researchers take a look at the potential fallout
Should Medicaid Be Expanded? Study Finds It May Lower Death Rates
As states debate whether to expand their Medicaid coverage under President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, a new study by Harvard School of Public Health researchers finds that doing so may save thousands of lives.
Alternatives to the Nursing Home for Aging or Ailing Parents
In this week’s TIME cover story, available to subscribers here, journalist Joe Klein writes about managing the care of his ailing parents. Following is information about housing and care options for families facing the same long goodbye.
The Healthland Podcast: Sexual Abuse, Memory and the Painkiller Epidemic
This week on the podcast, we use the Penn State and Herman Cain cases as a starting point for a discussion of the complicated relationships among sexual abuse, sexual harassment, trauma and memory. We also discuss the dramatic …
U.S. Abortion Rate Drops, Except Among Poorest Women
The rate of abortion among American women has dropped overall, but not among the poorest women, according to study published in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology by the Guttmacher Institute.
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Vaccination Rates Drop in Wealthier Kids: The Autism Rumors Take a Toll
If there’s one great truth of political debate, it’s this: when noise trumps knowledge, someone’s going to get hurt.
Number of the Day: 50.7 Million
The Census bureau announced today that 50.7 million people in the U.S., including 7.5 million children, did not have health insurance in 2009, up from 46.3 million in 2008. The number of U.S. residents with insurance in 2009 was …
Meet the Man Behind Health Care Reform
If you’ve heard of Donald Berwick, the new chief of Medicare and Medicaid, chances are good that what you’ve heard has been pretty scary. Charges levels by Republicans critical of the new Affordable Care Act (ACA) include: He wants to create a British-style health care in the U.S.! He wants to ration care! He has secret ambitions to …