Earlier this week, I had the pleasure of moderating a panel at the National Health Policy Conference in Washington, D.C. At this annual event jointly sponsored by AcademyHealth and Health Affairs, our panel focused on the current status of technology in health delivery systems. The topic and the excellent presentations by the panelists — Shannah […]
Author: Mike Magee
Cancer is scary — there’s no doubt about it. We all live in fear of it, and 1.4 million are diagnosed each year. Then there’s treatment, therapy, pain, waiting, and either death, recovery or relapse. As a result, patients and families often have a difficult time sustaining hope in the face of a cancer diagnosis. […]
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Tips for Avoiding Food-Related Illness
After the recent outbreaks of food-related illness all over the country, I decided to do a little research and find out more about how, exactly, our food can become contaminated with bacteria such as E. coli and why this continues to happen. I assumed that if I was curious and concerned, a lot of other […]
I passed a billboard in Manhattan recently that read “Burning calories is now officially delicious.” Enter Enviga, joint venture of Coca-Cola Co. and Nestle. At $1.45 per 12 oz can, it comes with what the marketers say are “negative calories.” How so? Well, it has 5 calories. But they say that a critical ingredient extracted […]
The New York Times recently reported on a Harvard School of Public Health study revealing that cigarette makers deliberately manipulate nicotine levels in cigarettes to make them more addictive. No real surprise there. Dr. David Kessler, former head of the FDA, at the time that the FDA was pushing to gain regulatory control over nicotine, […]
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Paying Attention to Water
Most of us take water for granted. We turn on the tap, and there it is. But the truth is, by 2025, 63% of the world’s population will be living in water-scarce areas. That’s why, as I mention in this week’s Health Politics program, we must be extremely mindful of not only where our water […]
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Top Health Milestone Since 1840
A soon-to-appear Health Politics piece goes underground to explain what happens to all that NYC water once it is drained, flushed and otherwise discarded. As if to reassure me that I had indeed picked a topic worth exploring, the British Medical Journal on January 18, 2007, went public with its poll of the top health […]
