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The House Votes on Health Care Tomorrow!
The House is voting on its health care reform bill tomorrow. Exciting! There’s a summary of the bill and rules for the vote here. Will Americans be able to afford insurance? Will our country go bankrupt? Are we on a slippery slope to socialism? If you want to get in a last-minute call to your representatives to let them know what you think, you can do that here. Once the House votes, it’s the Sentate’s turn. … -
Haagen-Dazs is giving a dollar per tweet to save honey bees
Häagen-Dazs, which relies on honey bees for many of the natural ingredients that go into it’s ice cream, has donated more than $500,000 over the past two years to scientific research that will help save the honey bees. This week, they announced that for every tweet that includes #HelpHoneyBees, they will donate $1 to the University of California at Davis for research into Colony Collapse Disorder. Original article: We’re Saving Honey Bees This Week On Twitcause :… -
Swine Flu Stew
Can your food choices help make you more healthy? Vietnamese pho is next to godliness. Fresh noodles, steaming amber beef broth, and herbs. The soup’s spices enhance and concentrate the flavor of beef. There’s magic in pho. But is there medicine in it, too? Pho contains star anise. Star anise contains shikimic acid, the active ingredient in Tamiflu, one of only two antiviral drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration for treating swine flu (H1N1) and… -
How Diets Affect Weight Around the World
Approximately two-thirds of the United States’ adult population is overweight. This is because, on average, adults in the United States are eating upwards of 3,500 calories each day, when 2,000 calories a day is plenty for an active adult. Both types of foods, and the amount of daily calories an adult chooses to consume can have a significant impact on their health, as you can see by the distribution of calories in diets around the… -
Why American Health Care Costs so Much
Ezra Klein sat down with an insurance industry CEO to try and better understand what’s going on with our health care system. The most interesting part of the conversation (to hear him tell it) was seeing charts that actually assign costs—in dollars—to different units of care (like pills, doctor visits, and lab tests), and then compare those costs to the same units in different countries. He describes the United States column in all the bar charts… -
Health Care Conversation Visualization
A pretty cool presentation of conversations about health care happening on NYT. Original article: Health Care Conversations – NYTimes.com -
How Much People Pay for Health Care Around the World
Every country in the world approaches health care differently, but the end goal is the same: Keep citizens as healthy as possible at the lowest cost. Some countries spend a lot on health care, but see don’t see great benefits for those expenditures among their citizens. Others, at least by the metrics below, are finding ways to reach both goals. This infographic is a look at 12 countries around the world that examines how far… -
Should We Ban Advertising Junk Food to Kids?
Couple things we know. Childhood obesity is basically a national health crisis. Sugar cereals, as we called them when I was a kid, are not good for us, despite being delicious and despite marketers’ best efforts to have us think otherwise. Now, thanks to a leaked Yale University report, we can add one more factoid to he mix: Preschoolers are bombarded with cereal ads an average of 642 a year. Now, we’re not talking about ads… -
Which States Will Opt Out of a Public Option?
Harry Reid announced yesterday that the current health care bill will include an “opt-out public option.” In other words, there will be a government-run plan in which every citizen will be enrolled for which every citizen will be eligible if they don’t already have health care, unless their state government chooses to opt their entire state out of the program by 2014. At that point, barring any changes to the law, every state that hasn’t opted out… -
Pop!Tech ’09: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Use an E-Card
By the age of 25, 1 in 2 people will have an STD. One of the problems health workers face in trying to bring that number down is the fact that sex, and all the embarrassing diseases it can get you, isn’t always easy to talk about. Deb Levine’s organization, Isis, uses the web in a variety of clever ways to get make sure it’s the information about STDs (and not the diseases themselves) that gets transmitted. Here’s…
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