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Will You Be Helped by the New High-Risk Health Pools?

Trudy Lieberman | May 26, 2010

Participate in My Care? Room for Improvement

Jessie Gruman | May 20, 2010
The Center for Advancing Health, just released A Snapshot of People's Engagement in Their Health Care, a study that found that most of us do relatively little to participate in our health care.

Our Shopping Problem

Jessie Gruman | May 17, 2010
Apparently, borrowers who obtained a home loan in the last five years spent five hours researching a mortgage, half the amount of time they spent researching a car and the same amount of time they spent researching a vacation, according to a study reported in The New York Times on Saturday.

Access to Health Insurance Is Just a Start'

Kalahn Taylor Clark | May 7, 2010

Sorting Through the Promise of Alzheimer's Research

Gail Hunt | May 5, 2010
Greetings from the National Alliance for Caregiving!' Last week I participated in a very interesting panel on Preventing Alzheimer's and Cognitive Decline.' It was' a pleasure for me to meet and confer with expert academics and clinicians on' this emerging field of research.

In a Hospital and Concerned About Quality?

Carol Cronin | May 3, 2010
Your mother is in the hospital.' The nurse comes in to give her a drug.' You ask what drug it is and it's something to which she's allergic ' a fact noted on the long list of things you had to provide at admission.' The nurse apologizes profusely and gets a substitute drug for her.' The next day about the same time, a different nurse comes in to give your mother a drug.' Again, you ask and again it is the wrong drug.

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