Business Insider
An Amazing Healthcare Revolution Is Happening In Maryland — And Almost No ...
Business Insider
"I left, and I described it as the 'anti-gravity zone' for healthcare," Sharfstein, the state of Maryland's health secretary, told Business Insider in an interview last week. "Just everything was incredible. I think they were pretty far out ahead of ...
Forbes
Health Games Platforms Ready for Mainstream Adoption
Forbes
For the past several years, researchers have strived to create compelling games that improve behavior, reduce stress, or teach healthy responses to difficult life situations. Such healthy games tend to arise in research settings because of the need to ...
Removing mental health stigma focus of Hillcrest event
Waco Tribune-Herald
The Speak Your Mind Texas event Tuesday is designed to focus on eliminating the stigma associated with mental health issues among young people. “So often you see people who feel stigmatized or feel ashamed that they are facing some sort of mental ...
Boston Globe
Using meetup apps to promote safer sex
Boston Globe
That ability to find a sexual partner with a few taps on a phone screen has raised concern among health officials and physicians, who say these meetup apps, more commonly known as hookup apps — which use geo-location to connect people with potential ...
New app helps people navigate health care system
Charleston Daily Mail
A new app created by UnitedHealthcare will help the public understand how to better navigate the health care system. The app, Health4Me, was launched in 2012 for UnitedHealthcare members only, but a new guest version recently was released to all ...
Family HealthCare celebrating National Health Center Week
Visalia Times-Delta
And for Family HealthCare Network, which has 14 federally qualified community health centers throughout Tulare and Kings counties, it's an opportunity to showcase what it has to offer. CEO Kerry Hydash said it's an opportunity to celebrate what they ...
Health pros warn against thinness at any cost
The Advocate
"It's a pressing public health issue. These are serious psychiatric disorders that can lead to death," said Rebecca Puhl, deputy director of the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity. An estimated 30 million Americans have eating disorders such ...
Obamacare law funds studies on better health care
Chicago Tribune
White is participating in a clinical trial designed to test an old-new system of delivering health care: having the same doctor treat patients both in the hospital and elsewhere, including making house calls when necessary. The $6 million study is one ...
Trillium, county funding health pilot projects
The Register-Guard
Trillium has given $535,200 in one-year grants, and Lane County has contributed $250,000 for eight projects to offer patients mental and physical health services in the same office. The hope is that patients will be more likely to seek the care they ...
Health law's Center for Medicare and Medicaid has its skeptics about innovation
Washington Post
The Affordable Care Act was supposed to mend what President Obama called a broken health-care system, but its best-known programs — online insurance and expanded Medicaid for the poor — affect a relatively small portion of Americans. A federal office ...
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