Answers To Diseases

Like everyone else, medical establishment is increasingly using Twitter these days.
Over at Better Health, Bryan Vartabedian gives some sage advice for physicians who may not be used to the technology. Like every other social media platform, Twitter can be used to both help, and potentially harm, a doctor’s brand. And with that brand [...]

A new study published today in Health Affairs finds that the decade-long nurse shortage is easing, or even ending, partly as a result of the continuing recession. Study author Peter Buerhaus of the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing and colleagues found that older nurses are delaying retirement or returning to the workforce and part-time nurses [...]

Shave and a haircut… and a blood pressure check?
Across the United States, nursing students are hitting the barbershops to encourage men’s health.
One specific target: heart health among black men.

More and more researchers are looking at the relationship between music and the human body. Here are a few recent developments!
At the Gagnon Cardiovascular Institute in New Jersey, patients who undergo surgery are accompanied by music during recovery.

The appointment of Dr. Thomas Frieden as the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is a triumph for public health and the American people. A passionate and well-informed professional, Frieden has been unusually successful as New York Citys Public Health Commissioner. In that role, with the strong backing of Mayor [...]

Everyone in the health care debate seems to agree that the biggest problem is costs and that the best way to control costs is to get at the waste in the system. To raise the money needed to cover everyone and to make the system sustainable, goes the argument, we need to convert the upwards [...]

Health Affairs has launched a new series of Health Policy Briefs, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. These free, online briefs aim to provide congressional staff and busy policy-watchers with quick, clear overviews of complex, front-burner issues in the health reform and policy debate.
The first 2 briefs look at Medicare reform. The first [...]

President Obama hopes so.
But, as Abraham Verghese writes, we can’t be so sure of that. The great cost-cutting hopes proposed by the government, which also include information technology and preventive medicine, all have very little data that show there will be any meaningful cost savings.
Are we focusing on the wrong things for cost control? [...]