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Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis is to personally oversee a new interministerial committee - bringing together the economy, health and employment ministries - which aims to drastically curb wasteful spending in the health sector, …

People nationwide are skeptical about the prospects of reforming health care, and that attitude was reflected Thursday at a luncheon sponsored by the Luther Midelfort Development Council.Randall Linton, Luther Midelfort president and …

Epidemiologists from the American Cancer Society and scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) teamed up to analyze the data and death certificate information of more …

Rather than crafting a blueprint for health care reform and then presenting it to the public for discussion, Lake believes that reformers should begin “by exploring voters’ own perceptions and the core values that shape their views on …

High-deductible health plans and health savings accounts are making reform even more of an uphill battle.

It’s been the preferred pseudonym for poverty, but the Mental Health Coordinating Council in New South Wales has recently released a document which ‘brings together the evidence linking mental health, recovery from mental illness, …

A nurse at Mulago Hospital has accused Health State Minister Emmanuel Otaala of beating her up, an allegation that once again casts the minister in unfavourable light.

In 2004, Tommy Thompson, then-Health and Human Services secretary, approached his boss with a request. Observing that the nation’s doctors and hospitals operate a tangled web of incompatible forms and technologies, Thompson asked …

Personally, I’m struggling to keep my health up so I can continue playing this game, but if you’re the other way around, and in Baltimore, check out the second day of the Fourth Annual Games for Health Conference 2008. …

The new collection contains over 2500 links to information in more than 40 languages and covers nearly 250 Health Topics. Users can navigate the new collection in multiple languages either by language or by health topics.

PANAMA CITY Tuesday morning at the Bay County Health Department begat doughnut drama when local resident Derrell Day brought four boxes of donuts to the 11th Street office. Health Department director Dr. Jason Newsom has been praised, …

THE JOB: The Public Health Editor will be responsible for writing weekly articles which cover the latest discussions and topics related to public health and human rights in the developing world from citizen media like blogs, podcasts, …

Partners In Health’s success has helped prove that allegedly “untreatable” health problems can be addressed effectively, even in poor settings. Until very recently, it is conventional wisdom that neither multidrug-resistant tuberculosis …

Despite this inaccuracy, Gimein does a good job of debunking the myths that big insurance profits and administraive inefficiency contribute in any meaningful way to health care inflation.

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If that’s the case, the McCain plan would decrease the tax subsidy only for those with more-generous-than-average corporate health plans, while increasing it for those with plans that are average and worse, plus all the people out there …

You dream of quitting and freelancing full time but there’s one thing holding you back: the company health plan. This is by the far the most common reason I hear from Americans on why they won’t quit the full-time job. …

Agreeing that markets and individuals aren’t total answer, he announces support for state, federal action.

Senator John McCain answered questions about how his health care plan would work.

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Over the weekend of February 21-24, Becky Messing, Jenn Van Roeyen, and James Platts traveled to Philadelphia to attend Wharton’s annual health care conference. Becky and Jenn are the two current co-presidents of the Haas Healthcare and …