HealthCommentaryLast week was a big one for the health policy crowd. Health Affairs, the venerable, high-end, thought-leading, peer-reviewed journal of choice for health-thought influentials launched its non-peer reviewed but vetted blog. Its opening deserves your review for two reasons. First, John Iglehart, the editor of Health Affairs, explains the “why” behind the new blog. Second, […]
New York is the nation’s largest restaurant market with 20,000 outlets. That’s why last week’s announcement from the NYC Health Department proposing city-wide controls on trans fat levels in restaurant food drew such a huge response. Restaurants would have 18 months to adjust their menus and remove nearly all the trans fats from their food. […]
As I discussed in this week’s Health Politics program, there are approximately 46 million American citizens without health insurance. But that number is actually rather misleading because it only counts those who went without insurance for an entire year. If you consider people who went without for at least one month in 2005, the number […]
The Sept. 27 Wall Street Journal article started this way, “Intel Corp is stepping on the gas…”. This caught my eye, not only because Intel is such a strong innovator in the area of health and technology, but more so because I thought Intel was supposed to be suffering in the tail winds of AMD […]
When Gro Brundtland released the WHO’s World Health Report 2000, American health leaders were shocked by the United States’ rank of 37th. That score was a composite of five marks. We did well in areas such as training, high-tech diagnostics, and elaborate specialty intervention. But we didn’t do as well when it came to the […]
Over the past few decades, I’ve spoken to more than a few medical editors and helped fund several International Congresses on Peer Review, which have always drawn the same conclusion. Peer review doesn’t work. So why haven’t medical and science leaders changed it? Simply because they haven’t known where else to go. Now, however, the […]
Twenty-five years ago, MTV revolutionized TV by going direct to kids, in their language, on their issues, with their images. They benefited greatly by being first to market with a new idea. With 82 million monthly visitors to their channel, and healthy brand extension, they should be feeling pretty good. But they’re not. Why? Because […]
