Below you’ll find our News and Blog posts from all categories. To see just a particular category, select from the main menu above under News/Blog.
PDF 
News/Blog
Nature-Deficit Disorder 0
Timothy Egan, who writes ”on American politics and life, as seen from the West,” has a great Opinionator piece in The New York Times this week. Here’s an excerpt: Something’s amiss. A third of all American adults — check, it just went up to 35.7 percent — are obese. The French don’t even have a word …
Read MorePrimer for Supreme Court Oral Arguments 0
For those who want to understand the different and varied legal questions argued before the Supreme Court this week, the NY Times put together a pretty good primer for taking a closer look at the constitutional questions that will be decided. It is complicated and each day’s arguments have focused on specific aspects of the …
Read MoreHealth care on pace to grab half of typical family income 0
In The Oregonian, Joe Rojas-Burke reports: Health insurance for a family could cost more than the annual earnings of half of U.S. households by 2033, if premiums and wages continue at the current pace. As a result, the health system is headed toward a meltdown unless the country can agree on reforms that substantially curb the growth …
Read MoreStudy Indicates Low Health Literacy Can Increase Mortality Risk 0
The results of a longitudinal study published this week in the British Medical Journal reports that a third of older adults in England have difficulties reading and understanding basic health related written information and this poorer understanding is associated with higher mortality, Having just attended a conference on health literacy, this has significant importance as …
Read MoreThinking About Cost Requires Knowing What Things Cost… 0
In the March 15th New York Times, Pauline Chen, MD wrote about the challenge of getting doctors to begin thinking about what health care costs. She mentions a nonprofit that focuses on teaching medical students and doctors in training about the cost of care – costofcare.org. You can read the article here. In the article …
Read More