joshuago’s health_care Bookmarks

This is not the time to get incremental. It’s the time to get fundamental. Reform the incentives. Make consumers accountable for spending. Make price information transparent. Reward health care, not health services.

A group of experts who care for the terminally ill claim that some patients are being wrongly judged as close to death.

The endurance running hypothesis, the idea that humans evolved as long-distance runners, may have legs thanks to a new study on toes.

Sure, you know walking is good exercise. But here's some thing you might not realize: You can give your waistline (and other body parts) a serious trimming by tweaking that walk around the block.