The November/December issue of the journal Health Affairs covers the topic of Will Employer Coverage Endure? There’s further discussion that health coverage isn’t the same as the traditional concept of insurance in the Health Affairs Blog. The California Healthcare Foundation has also provided free access links to several of the articles from their page on [...]
I recently subscribed to a couple of Time.com RSS feeds on science and health. On the health side, In Perils of the Lonely Brain, Jeffrey Kluger writes about research on how feelings of isolation negatively effect executive function. In What We’ll be Dying From, Michael Lemonick notes a World Health Organization report on the top [...]
My wife is a fabric “junkie†who has increasingly been using the Internet to shop on the long-tail of the distribution of what’s available. According to a recent press release the HAPTEX project at the University of Geneva is working to make such remote purchases even more satisfying by providing a virtual feel of the [...]
A recent press release by the Karolinska Institutet, a medical university in Sweden, notes a study revealing that stress in early life can be a major factor in later development of chronic fatigue syndrome. The study looked at 20,000 Swedish twins surveyed in 1973 and again in 1998. The scientists also noted a correlation between [...]
This Sunday, being the 3rd Sunday in November, is the World Day of Remembrance for road traffic victims, according to the World Health Organization (WMO).
“In a split second, a traffic crash transforms forever the life of a family. Behind each statistic, there are fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, grandchildren, colleagues, classmates [...]
At a recent Earth Systems Science Partnership (ESSP) conference in Bejing, one of the plenary sessions was on the Importance of an Interdisciplinary Approach to Earth System Science. The description of the session noted the importance of continued research and mitigation strategies to offset negative impacts of global environmental change.
There is no doubt that humans [...]
With a few days more than a month to go until Winter solstice in the northern hemisphere, the days are getting short. Even at noon, the sun is a lot closer to the horizon than it was a month or two ago. For many, the lack of light also triggers a set of depressive symptoms [...]
Creating a government that works means having the ability to listen to different viewpoints and negotiate workable compromises.
Creating trust in government comes from actively promoting an open flow of information and discussion. The essential words here are transparency and truth, as used by Stever Robbins in his articles for Working Knowledge on Building Trust and [...]
