This week’s Health Politics program discusses the progress we have made since Alzheimer’s disease was first noted by Alois Alzheimer 100 years ago. As I mentioned in the program, we’re closer to finding a cure than we were 30 years ago, but we’re still not close enough. With the aging of the population, the incidence […]
Author: Mike Magee
There’s a clear message out there for all those in the business of Continuing Consumer Education (CCE). This isn’t a pencil and paper society any more. New media is the place to be. Take, for example, the announcement this week of year-to-year circulation numbers of major U.S. newspapers. Not a pretty site. Of 25 papers […]
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What’s Wrong with Aging?
If you watched this week’s Health Politics program, you know that human growth hormone (HGH) is being marketed as the “Fountain of Youth” … and many people are falling for this false claim, particularly aging Baby Boomers. I’d like to get a discussion going about America’s obsessive quest to defy aging. Do we fear death? […]
This week’s Health Politics program is about employer-based health insurance. Nearly 63% of non-elderly Americans get their health insurance in this way. Have you ever stopped to think about how odd this is? As I mentioned in the program, the system basically developed without much planning and certainly without any long-term considerations. Adding health care […]
Those of us tied to health tend to think our world is shaking faster and harder than everyone else’s. But the truth is that the forces of aging, consumer empowerment, societal complexity, the Internet and globalization have everyone “all shook up.” In fact, it’s hard to find a Fortune 500 company that isn’t “fundamentally rethinking […]
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Positive Feedback
Health Politics is now about three years old with some 150 programs in the archive. Beyond our growth in numbers and commitment to” the people” and “the people caring for the people,” what keeps us going? Well, one thing for sure is the positive feedback we’ve received from week to week on our programs. The […]
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Healthy Lives Start at Home
In this week’s Health politics program, I discuss the history between the Federal Trade Commission, the Food And Drug Administration, and food. The program explores various attempts that have been made to combat obesity, and childhood obesity, in particular, with federal legal action over the years. And progress has been made, but the numbers can’t […]
