By the Associated Press |
March 10, 2010
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Basic Web Registration As they scrambled recently to trace the source of a salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds around the country, investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention successfully used a new tool for the first time—the shopper cards that millions of Americans swipe every time they buy groceries. FULL STORY »
March 08, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription “That kind of a cost, compared with the rest of the world, is like a tapeworm eating at our economic body.”—Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett on the need for reform that helps contain costs, citing healthcare costs as a drain on the U.S. economy. FULL STORY »
March 08, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription The Vancouver Olympics may be history, but some members of the U.S. team will still be appearing on TV screens as part of an HHS campaign against childhood obesity. Videos featuring figure-skating medalist Michelle Kwan, 2010 skeleton racer Noelle Pikus-Pace, 2010 Olympic snowboarder Louie Vito and others were shot during the Winter Games, with the athletes offering kids advice on how to keep healthy. The Let’s Move campaign is a special project of first lady Michelle Obama. FULL STORY »
March 08, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription Outliers' mother taught us it wasn't polite to make fun of someone's name. But sometimes while perusing articles about hospitals across America … well, we just have to wonder: What were they thinking? FULL STORY »
March 08, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription Here's one for the “Thanks a lot, pal” file: Kentucky GOP Sen. Jim Bunning, who is—depending on your point of view—credited or blamed for personally blocking the proposed “doc fix” for a few days last week, won re-election in 2004 thanks in no small part to the financial support he received from the healthcare industry and the American Medical Association. FULL STORY »
March 01, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription The snow may have melted but it seems the costs associated with recent snowstorms are still piling up for some hospitals.When the new year began, Maryland hospitals didn’t bank on heavy snowstorms adding to their financial headaches for 2010. FULL STORY »
March 01, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription Although the promotion so far has resulted in more calls from reporters than prospective patients, Tony Mammen at 21st Century Urology in Orland Park, Ill., says he’s pleased with the response to his practice’s promotion to schedule vasectomies March 18-19 and March 25-26—the first and Sweet 16 rounds of March Madness, aka the NCAA basketball tournament. FULL STORY »
March 01, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription Everyone knows that a hearty bowl of chicken soup helps cure what ails you. But in the case of at least four patients at hospitals in Northern California, a lunchtime bowl of hot soup stopped them cold. On Feb. 10, these unfortunate souls found glass fragments in chicken soup served at separate Kaiser Permanente facilities. Thankfully, no harm came to the patients who ate the soup, according to Kaiser Permanente. FULL STORY »
February 22, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription Scott Brown's election to the U.S. Senate has had major consequences for healthcare reform, but it also caused another small healthcare ripple. FULL STORY »
February 22, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription Outliers imagines the recruiting poster for the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine's new global health issues course might read a little something like this: Wanted: Medical students interested in an exchange program with counterparts in the far-flung regions of Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Travel requirements: Bus fare to get to class on time. FULL STORY »
February 22, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription Low patient volumes got you feeling blue? Tired of the nagging suspicion that your personal idiosyncrasies are being caused by repressed memories from a past life? FULL STORY »
February 22, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription It's not exactly like writing the great American novel on his employer's dime, but Alan Wesley is certainly enjoying an unusual creative outlet as corporate publications manager for SSM Health Care in St. Louis. FULL STORY »
By Associated Press |
February 16, 2010
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Basic Web Registration Egypt's famed King Tutankhamun suffered from a cleft palate and club foot, likely forcing him to walk with a cane, and died from complications from a broken leg exacerbated by malaria, according to the most extensive study ever of his mummy. FULL STORY »
February 15, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription The Health News Florida Web site broke a big story earlier this month when it reported that a Florida doctor who is living in a federal prison after pleading guilty to health fraud in September 2008 is listed on the Florida Health Department Web site as having a “clear/active” medical license. FULL STORY »
February 15, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription The healthcare debate is often focused on cost burdens associated with caring for poor and low-income Americans. But as science reporter Rebecca Skloot makes clear in her new book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, if it weren't for one poor woman and the contribution of her prolific “HeLa” cells, treatments for an endless list of diseases, including polio, leukemia, Parkinson's disease and influenza, would only be a dream. “HeLa” comes from the first two letters of Lacks' first and last name. FULL STORY »
February 15, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription Outliers likes to think we keep on top of all the latest trends and fads that ripple through the industry, but we seem to have been oblivious to one that appears to be a popular target for plastic surgeons: new moms. Cosmetic surgery sees ample opportunities for what one health system described as procedures to “improve upon the natural changes of a mother's body,” if an unscientific Google search of “mommy makeover” is any indication. That search also brings up a lot of results for plastic surgeons in Southern California. Hmm. FULL STORY »
By Associated Press |
February 10, 2010
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Basic Web Registration A senior U.S. envoy accused Iranian leaders of hypocrisy Wednesday for opting to pursue "ever more dangerous nuclear technology" instead of accepting an international plan to make sure that medical isotopes get to needy Iranian cancer patients. FULL STORY »
By the Associated Press |
February 09, 2010
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Basic Web Registration To his neighbors, Walter J. "Butch" Rubincan is a quiet man who takes excellent care of his ranch home while working at Christiana Hospital and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center. But to police, the 46-year-old is the man they say started stealing men's shoes more than 20 years ago, accumulating a stash of about 3,900 of them—as well as photographs and loose change. FULL STORY »
February 08, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription The whole may be greater than the sum of the parts, as the saying goes, but when it comes to healthcare reform it seems a lot of voters prefer the parts—thank you very much. FULL STORY »
February 08, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription Some news reports have staying power. For example, people still talk about a report about dirty hotel bedspreads that was filed in 1996 by Chicago investigative television journalist Dave Savini. (Unfortunately—and surprisingly—Outliers couldn't find a copy on YouTube.) FULL STORY »
February 08, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription Imagine a hospital saying bye-bye to bleach … forever.Then imagine fewer germs, reducing the spread of dangerous bacteria. FULL STORY »
