Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong. For decades, the medical community has ignored mountains of evidence to wage a cruel and futile war on fat people, poisoning public perception and ruining millions of lives. It’s time for a new paradigm. From the 16th century to the 19th, scurvy killed around 2 million sailors, more than warfare ...
HuffPost (The Huffington Post until 2017; often abbreviated as HuffPo) is an American progressive [1] [2] ... The opinion and health sections were eliminated.
The data collected by NHANES is one of the federal government’s richest resources in shaping health policy. In 1976, for the first time, NHANES began to test for levels of lead. After blood was drawn from a vein, it was frozen, packed into dry ice, and shipped to a lab in Atlanta. The results stunned officials.
Schizophrenia affects about 1 percent of the population, roughly three times the number of Americans who suffer from Parkinson’s. Because the disease typically appears in adolescence or early adulthood, it claims many more years of healthy life than conditions like leukemia and HIV.
Family members were located independently and relayed information about their loved ones. Court documents also proved useful, as did corrections department records, jail wardens, defense attorneys and corrections officials from Kentucky and Ohio. HuffPost was able to obtain histories for 74 of the 93 victims.
An analysis by the Washington Post last December of California hospice data found that the proportion of patients who were discharged alive from the health service rose by about 50 percent between 2002 and 2012. Profit per patient quintupled to $1,975 in California, the newspaper reported.
But just 31 percent of the 7,745 doctors in those areas are certified to treat the legal limit of 100 patients. Even in Vermont, where the governor in 2014 signed several bills adding $6.8 million in additional funding for medication-assisted treatment programs, only 28 percent or just 60 doctors are certified at the 100-patient level.
Michael Hobbes is a journalist and podcast host. [1] He was formerly a Senior Enterprise Reporter for HuffPost. [2] [3] His writing has also appeared in Pacific Standard, [4] The New Republic, [5] and Slate.