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Health Groups Lobbying & Executives’ $$$s

The February 16th issue of National Journal has its biennial salary report (2006 data) for national advocacy and trade associations. Since most of my posts have been too long I’ll keep this one short...

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Trans Fat Shocker

A couple of days a week I work out of shared office space in Cambridge, MA that is part of a multi-floor incubator/start-up facility. One of the benefits in the office is the food stocked in the...

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Ben Franklin’s Virtues and the Pennsylvania Primary

While reading a Ben Franklin biography (“The First American,” by H. W. Brands), I was struck by a list of 13 virtues he wrote while in his mid-20s to guide his life: 1. Temperance. Eat not to dullness....

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Toxic Dietary Supplements

I’m usually either supportive or neutral about alternative therapies because they generally aren’t harmful, and can be beneficial. However, there seem to be more and more recalls of these products by...

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Vitamin D – It’s Not Just About Bones

Today’s Boston Globe has an article about a study from Children’s Hospital in Boston that explores the high rate of insufficient vitamin D in otherwise healthy infants and toddlers. (12% deficient in...

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Increasing Diabetes Rate and Awareness in US

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released some interesting data yesterday.  They reported that in 2007 an estimated 23.6 million people (7.8% of the total US population) have diabetes....

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Updates on Vitamin D

Since I wrote about the importance of Vitaim D a few weeks ago, some new information has come out. A report was released this week from researchers in Australia about Vitamin D reducing the risk of all...

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Colon Cancer Insights – Vitamin D and Cannabis – “Good and Good for You”

A couple of recent reports provide new insights into preventing and treating colon cancer.  These studies remind me of the scene in Woody Allen’s movie Sleeper, where he wakes up in the future to find...

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Digesting Medical Progress

One of the challenges for improving the healthcare system is creating a vision for what is achievable in a timeframe of months or years.  The first step for creating such a realistic vision is to...

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Why Healthcare Spending is Slowing – A New Normal?

The growth in healthcare spending has slowed in recent years.  Many experts and pundits have sought to explain why – while also worrying, (or predicting), that this slowing is only temporary, i.e. past...

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