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Stronger Support Needed for Healthy Beverage Practices in Child Care
March 7, 2013 Support is needed in child care centers to help meet existing water policies and new water requirements included in the 2010 Child Nutrition Reauthorization Act, according to a new ... > full story -
Wide Variation in Cesarean Delivery Rates Among US Hospitals
March 5, 2013 Cesarean delivery is the most common surgery in the United States, performed on 1.67 million American women annually. Yet hospital cesarean rates vary widely according to new ... > full story -
Pharmaceutical Advertising Down but Not out
March 4, 2013 The pharmaceutical industry has pulled back on marketing to physicians and consumers, yet some enduring patterns persist. According to a new study, advertising peaked in 2004, with industry promotion ... > full story -
A Billion Deaths from Tobacco Are a Key Obstacle to Global Development
March 4, 2013 If the word's nations are going to prevent tobacco smoking from causing one projected billion deaths by the end of this century, they must classify tobacco marketing as a threat to public health, ... > full story -
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The Patient Satisfaction Chasm
March 1, 2013 New research finds insufficient support from hospital management to improve the patient experience by engaging physicians and nurses in the ... > full story -
U.S. May Face Inevitable Nuclear Power Exit
March 1, 2013 In the third and final issue in a series focused on nuclear exits, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, published by SAGE, turns its attention to the United States and looks at whether the ... > full story -
Pharmaceutical Companies: An $84 Million Marketing Effort in the District of Columbia
March 1, 2013 Drug companies spent nearly $84 million marketing pharmaceuticals in the District of Columbia in 2011, including an outlay of nearly $19 million for gifts given to physicians, hospitals and ... > full story -
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Emergency Room Patients Ask: How Much Will I Be Charged?
February 27, 2013 It’s a basic, reasonable question: How much will this cost me? For patients in the emergency room, the answer all too often is a ... > full story -
Canadian Adult Obesity at Historic High
February 27, 2013 Obesity rates across Canada are reaching alarming levels and continue to climb, according to a new ... > full story -
New Insight Into How People Choose Insurance Plans
February 27, 2013 A new paper suggests that forecasting the likely spending reduction associated with high deductibles requires a fine-grained approach, to account for the differing ways consumers respond to ... > full story
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