Aetna’s CareEngine-powered Personal Health Record (PHR) software will be available to 1 million members this quarter … Computerworld magazine says Aetna is about to offer its 15 million members online access to their health care information. Aetna’s CareEngine-powered Personal Health Record (PHR) software will be available to 1 million members this quarter and to the […]
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Putting Your Fat Knowledge to Work
If you saw last week’s Health Politics program in which I discussed the different types of fats, their role in cholesterol circulation, and how they affect risk of heart disease and stroke, you will notice that this week’s program builds upon that information to help you use it in your everyday life. Knowing about fats […]
A recent Wall Street Journal article featured an interview with Judy Hu, General Electric‘s global executive director of advertising and branding. The interview and Ms. Hu’s responses focused on the challenges of holding viewers’ attention, specifically to GE ads, in an age of digital video recorders that allow viewers to super-speed their way through programming […]
Over the past decade Exxon Mobil Corp., the world’s largest publicly traded multinational has seldom been on the same page as Ceres, an environmentally sensitive investor coalition. In fact, when Ceres rated oil companies on their performance in support of responsibly addressing the issues of global warming, BP got 90 and Royal Dutch Shell got […]
On Jan. 9, 2007, the physician-led Academy for Eating Disorders released its recommended guidelines for the fashion industry, which has come under fire for having dangerously thin models on the runway. The guidelines include that models should be a least 16 years old and should have a body mass index (BMI) of 17.5 or greater […]
When New York City recently announced it had banned artificial trans fats from restaurant cooking oils — and by mid next year will ban them from all restaurant food — I think there was quite a bit of confusion about what was going on and, more specifically, why. (I heard the phrase “trans – what?” […]
Some months back, I outlined the untold stories of the war in Iraq — specifically, the devastating health impacts including the long-term injuries (that can be both mental and physical) that are increasing among our U.S. military veterans. Now, President Bush, in spite of the recent mid-term elections, has signaled his intent to further escalate […]
