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From the ‘we’ve come a long way’ file: an African-American man in Mississippi currently has a shorter life expectancy than an average American did in 1960. Whoa.

Posted on by Ted Bauer

However you choose to slice it, the health care situation in the United States is a bit of a wreck, to be sure. The Commonwealth Fund just released some detailed rankings of health care performance state-by-state, and then the main… Continue Reading →

New potential (logical?) use of social media: spotting disease/illness trends ahead of time

Posted on by Ted Bauer

From here: “The big advantage of social media is you can get a lot more data, and you can get it more quickly and more economically,” said Henry Niman, a biomedical researcher and president of Pittsburgh-based Recombinomics Inc., which analyzes… Continue Reading →