Study Says Cigarettes Become More Addictive Every Year

The New York Times recently reported on a Harvard School of Public Health study revealing that cigarette makers deliberately manipulate nicotine levels in cigarettes to make them more addictive. No real surprise there. Dr. David Kessler, former head of the FDA, at the time that the FDA was pushing to gain regulatory control over nicotine, […]

Paying Attention to Water

Most of us take water for granted. We turn on the tap, and there it is. But the truth is, by 2025, 63% of the world’s population will be living in water-scarce areas. That’s why, as I mention in this week’s Health Politics program, we must be extremely mindful of not only where our water […]

Top Health Milestone Since 1840

A soon-to-appear Health Politics piece goes underground to explain what happens to all that NYC water once it is drained, flushed and otherwise discarded. As if to reassure me that I had indeed picked a topic worth exploring, the British Medical Journal on January 18, 2007, went public with its poll of the top health […]

Aetna on the Move with PHRs: Control of Information = Control of Transformation

Aetna’s CareEngine-powered Personal Health Record (PHR) software will be available to 1 million members this quarter … Computerworld magazine says Aetna is about to offer its 15 million members online access to their health care information. Aetna’s CareEngine-powered Personal Health Record (PHR) software will be available to 1 million members this quarter and to the […]

Putting Your Fat Knowledge to Work

If you saw last week’s Health Politics program in which I discussed the different types of fats, their role in cholesterol circulation, and how they affect risk of heart disease and stroke, you will notice that this week’s program builds upon that information to help you use it in your everyday life. Knowing about fats […]

Note to GE Healthcare: Talk to Judy Hu

A recent Wall Street Journal article featured an interview with Judy Hu, General Electric‘s global executive director of advertising and branding. The interview and Ms. Hu’s responses focused on the challenges of holding viewers’ attention, specifically to GE ads, in an age of digital video recorders that allow viewers to super-speed their way through programming […]

What a Difference a Day Makes: Exxon Goes Positive and Transparent

Over the past decade Exxon Mobil Corp., the world’s largest publicly traded multinational has seldom been on the same page as Ceres, an environmentally sensitive investor coalition. In fact, when Ceres rated oil companies on their performance in support of responsibly addressing the issues of global warming, BP got 90 and Royal Dutch Shell got […]

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