Archive for May, 2009

Is a shower part of your daily ritual? Maybe you like one first thing in the morning, to get your brain going. Maybe you like one before bed, so the warm water can help you relax.

The Current Options Under Discussion
There is substantial debate among Democrats about whether a public-plan option is a critical component of health reform; Republicans seem unified in opposing the idea. The public plan proposals are focused largely on expanding the population with coverage and on controlling federal costs. The proposal below focuses more on transforming the [...]

The Hatfields and McCoys, a metaphor for a modern day high-tech industry rivalry centered on personal health records (PHRs) involving Google Health, Microsoft HealthVault and other PHR vendors. An image that a West Virginia health care lawyer can really appreciate.
Thanks to a tweet by @2healthguru for pointing out the CNET article, Microsoft, Google in [...]

There has been a great deal of debate over how much significance to attach to last weeks promise by health care industry leaders to do our part in achieving the Obama administrations goal of cutting health care cost grown by 1.5 percentage points annually. President Barack Obama called the occasion a historic day, a watershed [...]

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has released an operating plan titled the Health Information Technology American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Implementation Plan.
The operating plan is included on the DHHS Agency Wide Plan page under the “List of Recovery Programs within HHS.”

Our bodies are so incredibly amazing aren’t they? Stop and think about it. Just how we are able to move alone is fascinating. At birth we had about 300 bones to start with. Some of these then fused together to form the 206 bones that we have in our body by [...]

It’s not uncommon for a person to experience some discomfort after flossing — especially if they aren’t a regular flosser.
If your teeth or gums hurt after a flossing the main cause may be how often you floss.

Funny stuff.

(via WhiteCoat)

Transplant surgeon Pauline Chen uses that harrowing personal account to discuss the intersection between motherhood and medicine.
Women currently make up the majority of students at most medical schools, which means that female physicians will comprise a major part of the future medical workforce. But, despite the stress that you’d intuitively associate between juggling medicine [...]

Flossing is good for your pearly whites… but a lot of people don’t bother unless there’s something stuck.
Why is flossing important, anyway? Dental floss is the best way to get plaque out from between the teeth and right at the gumline.


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