Health Care
At her 30th MBA class reunion in 2009, gerontologist and consultant Esther Koch gave her classmates tips on successful aging. Since then, she was almost entirely housebound for nine months because of injuries from a bicycle accident. That prompted the 61 year old to change her own plans for the...
Deep in the industrial heartland of Oakland, Calif., is one of the most unique health care research facilities in the world, though a visitor might confuse it with a movie set. It’s the 37,000-square-foot Garfield Innovation Center run by Kaiser Permanente, and it contains realistic operating...
As Hurricane Sandy ravaged the East Coast last fall, knocking out power in half of Manhattan and even at New York University's Langone Medical Center, Stephen Rudy found himself in the dark. Yet, when the power went out, Rudy wasn't at home in Brooklyn. He was in Uganda at a 300-patient hospital...
One of the cardinal principles of health insurance policy, and of the Affordable Care Act, is that insurers shouldn't discriminate between people based on their health differences.
Under federal law, companies can offer employees a menu of insurance plans with different prices, but they aren't...
Long before Democrats passed their sweeping health care reform in 2010, economists across the political spectrum had argued that bad tax incentives were a major contributor to the soaring cost of American medical care.
Unfortunately, the main target of that ire was also the biggest and most...
Have you ever felt like you couldn’t stop yourself from checking your email or sending a text message, even when it annoyed everyone around you? If so, you’re hardly alone, says Kelly McGonigal, a PhD in psychology whose latest book is The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It...
At a time when "medical innovation" often is associated with dramatic pharmaceutical advances, complex imaging equipment, and other high-tech wonders, students at Stanford are also looking for innovation at the other end of the spectrum: relatively simple, low-cost modifications to existing health...