Exporting the U.S. Diet

A bad deal for developing nationsEver heard of the “dual burden of disease”? The idea is that infectious diseases from the developing world (as a byproduct of poverty, famine, lack of access to clean, safe water and forced migration tied to warfare) are intermingling with chronic diseases from the developed world (as a result of […]

Mayo Clinic Health Policy Symposium

All-star group debates future of health care Mayo Clinic is running a 2-day symposium on Health Policy, with an all star group including representatives of the various campaigns. If you’d like an inside view of what’s going on, try Lee Aase’s Health Policy blog from Mayo Clinic.

In Vitro Fertilization and Twins in America

What’s behind the rise and success of IVF in the United States?Since the beginning of In Vitro Fertilization (IVP) in 1978, IVF babies have been on the rise. In the United States each year roughly 100,000 procedures are performed in some 400 clinics, resulting in approximately 50,000 babies. IVF is a four step process in […]

Dossia: Under-visioned

New service moves in the right direction, but is still a long way from lifespan planning I was asked recently by an MBA student to give my impressions of Dossia. What is Dossia? In its own words: “The Dossia Founders Group is a consortium of large employers united in their goal of providing employees, their dependents, […]

Techmanity:

Humanizing and revolutionizing medicine through technology Can technology save health care? While it offers bright hope for tomorrow, technology’s impact on medicine in general, and the patient-physician relationship in particular, is complex, to say the least. The mood of clinicians toward technology, for most of the 20th century, has been welcoming but cautious; a complex […]

Embryonic Stem Cells

As important as ever Last November there was a great deal of excitement around the announcement that stem cell researchers had developed a method of deriving cutaneous stem cells from human skin without the use of embryos. Many wondered whether these "induced pluripotential stem cells" might finally resolve the Bush Administration’s embargo on federally funded […]

Bottled Water Revisited:

If you don’t buy it, how best to contain it?According to Beverage Marketing Corporation, Americans drink, on average, 192 gallons of liquid a year. Of that total, water represents about 11 percent of our consumption, about the same amount as milk, and about the same amount as coffee and tea combined. The lead category of […]

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