Global Warming and Your Health

This week’s Health Politics program about global warming may give you some hope that a plan of attack — one that would better control emissions, help us consume less energy, and might involve changes to public policy — is finally coming together. This, of course, is good news. But I realize you might be asking […]

What is a Lifespan Planning Record?

In this week’s Health Politics program, I discuss what I call a “Lifespan Planning Record.” You may not have heard this term before, but I’ve been talking it up over the last few months because I strongly believe it’s one of the key elements that will be involved in fixing our health care system and […]

The Best Place to Die — Financially Speaking

The United States spent $327 billion last year on Medicare. That amount startles some. But what is more striking is that 27% of that, some $88 billion, was spent on the care of patients in their last year of life. Now Dartmouth Medical School, the home of the original Jack Wennberg variability studies in the […]

Getting Serious About CO2 Emissions

Kyoto aside, developed world progress is poor-to-none when it comes to carbon dioxide emissions. UN expert Yvo de Boer told The Wall Street Journal, “The rising trend is the worrisome part of it…” Who’s at fault? Well the U.S., for one. But surprisingly, our 2004 numbers were up only 1.3% from 2000. In the same […]

The Emerging Field of Web Science

On November 2, 2006, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Southampton in Britain announced the start of a joint research program in Web science. Ben Shneiderman, computer science professor at the University of Maryland, had this reaction, “Computer science is at a turning point, and it has to go beyond algorithms and […]

Caring for the Alzheimer’s Caregiver

This week’s Health Politics program discusses the progress we have made since Alzheimer’s disease was first noted by Alois Alzheimer 100 years ago. As I mentioned in the program, we’re closer to finding a cure than we were 30 years ago, but we’re still not close enough. With the aging of the population, the incidence […]

CCE: Jump on the New Media Bandwagon or Get Left Behind

There’s a clear message out there for all those in the business of Continuing Consumer Education (CCE). This isn’t a pencil and paper society any more. New media is the place to be. Take, for example, the announcement this week of year-to-year circulation numbers of major U.S. newspapers. Not a pretty site. Of 25 papers […]

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