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Baby Boomers and their Mental Health Care Needs: Can Medicare Rise to the Challenge?

During their young adulthood in the decades following the Second World War, the “baby boomers” were symbolically viewed as the driving force of optimism and opportunity in our society. As these citizens have grown older, however, there has been growing concern as to how the … Continue Reading

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Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move Campaign: Tackling Obesity at Home, in School, and in the Community

The Let’s Move Campaign, launched in 2010 by First Lady Michelle Obama, aims to solve “the challenge of childhood obesity within a generation,” according to the organization’s website. According to the website, nearly 1 in 3 American children is overweight or obese. The campaign seeks … Continue Reading

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Hospitals and Cigarettes: from Smoking Bans to Smoker Bans

5 Dec 2011

Hospitals and cigarettes embody fundamentally contradictory notions: one is where people go to seek health, and the other is the nation’s number one cause of …
Mandatory Graphic Cigarette Warning Labels: Freedom of Speech vs. Freedom from Smoke

5 Dec 2011

A picture may be worth 1000 lives, or many more, in the case of cigarette labels. In September of 2012, graphic images of the various …

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A relatively minor but intriguing component of the landmark Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) has featured prominently in the news lately. The Community …

We’ve all seen the unpromising statistics that indicate a dismal prognosis of our country’s health-care system. Medical expenditures currently consume 17.3% of the nation’s annual …