New national health care quality strategy

The new national health care quality strategy is designed to promote better health and higher quality care for Americans.  This is the first time the federal government has put forward a national strategy to guide local, state and national efforts to improve quality...

Plague of Plenty Spreading Around the World

What are the fattest countries in the World?  Check out the Peter Smith’s recent post about the country-by-country report on obesity from the Imperial College London, Harvard University, and the World Health Organization.   For even more information try the...

Lack of Competition Among Insurance Companies

New AMA study shows that most health insurance markets are dominated by one or two health insurers Health insurance is expensive in the U.S.  Most American families who get insurance through their job pay around one in five (15-25%) of their healthcare dollars to an...

Are Sweet Drinks Poison?

The following lecture is a real must for anyone who wants to understand the biochemical roots of the obesity epidemic and what we need to do to turn it around.  See Sugar:  The Bitter Truth on YouTube a lecture by Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in...