Myth-Busting Medicare Advantage
Counter Punch,
This year, the majority of Americans eligible for Medicare coverage chose to enroll in private Medicare Advantage (MA) plans…
This year, the majority of Americans eligible for Medicare coverage chose to enroll in private Medicare Advantage (MA) plans…
This year, the majority of Americans eligible for Medicare coverage chose to enroll in private Medicare Advantage (MA) plans…
Vegetarian and especially vegan diets can promote better health, help mitigate climate change and reduce inhumane factory…
Diet is the greatest contributor to death from cardiovascular disease.
As the president’s April 22 climate summit draws near, the federal action plan should focus on the enormous opportunities for…
Here’s a new must-read report: This is a thorough and carefully done analysis of the ways in which Big Food companies took…
But pain reduction not seen with the…
At my advanced age, the concept of Life Expectancy (the average age at which people of my generation die) becomes of some…
A recent Paul Krugman tweet got me thinking about life expectancy in the US: I’m pretty sure those facts are not accurate, as…
Today, the average American can expect to live well past the age of retirement and into their late 70’s, and early 80’s if you…
People throughout the western world are constantly being reminded that modern lifestyles have many unhealthy aspects. This is…
A record number of homeless people are dying across Los Angeles County — on bus benches, hillsides, railroad tracks and…
This week, I am coining a new term: vigevity. Self-evidently, perhaps, this is the combination of vitality and longevity. I…
Scarcely a week goes by these days without hearing yet again from some perch of lofty intellectual reflection that we know…
It is back to school season, so let's start this with a pop quiz:1. Which are more nutritious, garbanzo beans or jelly beans?2.
By Wendy E. Parmet and Jennifer Lea Huer We are pleased to host this symposium featuring commentary from speakers and…
Our perennial pseudo-confusion about diet, and pseudo-confusion, it is, is actually fueled by two parallel delusions, running…
JAMANetwork – free access to fulltext PDF – The State of US Health, 1990-2016 Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors…
Body in…
The word innovation is omnipresent in health and health care, describing new uses of technology and data, entrepreneurial…
The big factors in life expectancy: whether people smoke, what and how much they eat, and whether they abuse alcohol or drugs.
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Working-age Americans in 21 states faced a higher probability of premature death from 1990 to 2016…
The state of the union’s health is improving. But it is doing so very unequally, and recent signs of progress are in danger of…
Interview with Christopher JL. Murray, MD, DPhil, author of The State of US Health, 1990-2016: Burden of Diseases, Injuries…