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After health reform passes
Data is the real health reform. The legislation is just about who pays, and how. How much they pay is a market process, but that process has been hampered by the lack of a thumb on the buyer's side of the scale. That thumb will now be deployed.
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Turns out you do need Viagra like a heart attack
Guys, if you're having trouble with sex, you may have a problem Viagra won't fix.
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Diabetes is still heart disease but treat it differently
Diabetes is dealt with best by eating right and staying active, along with basic control of blood sugar levels.
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How can we change eating habits?
Our food producers are not bad guys, they're good guys. They want to eat too. When they are shown they can make more money with healthier goods, they will respond.
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Mass customization to revolutionize health care
Summit can make legs that not only attach correctly, reducing a wearer's pain, but that match the remaining limbs in appearance. They can be made dishwasher safe, and produced from recycleable materials.
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Alcohol and old studies
Some time in the not-too-distant future, we will be able to look at data on millions of women and parse it carefully so we get their actual intake, not an estimate, and a firm result on this question. But that time is not now.
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Why don’t we stop all this small talk?
Happy people know how to have deep conversations about their emotions with other people. They don't just chit-chat.
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The age of the super-centenarians
The prospect of extreme old age is changing the way we live. What are we going to do about it?
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The coming oxygen boom
Expect oxygenated Dasani and Aquafina within a year. Given falling sales after buyers learned these were just tap water, it's just the news Coke and Pepsi need to hear.
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Technology and the power to say no is real health reform
The technology at this week's HIMSS show is aimed at reducing the need for intravenous permission, and limiting that permission to what is most likely to deliver value.
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