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With demand far outstripping supply for therapists trained to treat sleep problems, online programs are "a very innovative and cost-effective way of looking at insomnia therapy," says Morin. There may be no single cure-all for sleeplessness, but such promising alternatives should help more night owls wake in the morning feeling refreshed...
High infant mortality, low life expectancy, soaring health-care costs - the symptoms are numerous and the diagnosis unmistakable: America's health-care system is ailing. But like a patient who coughs or limps his way through an illness, the U.S. has often been reluctant to look for help...
...scare conservatives. For one thing, Europeans spend less - about $4,000 a person less, in some cases - than Americans on health care annually, and often with better outcomes. The good news is that without reassembling its entire health-care system, there are many relatively simple measures that could help the U.S. get a handle on soaring costs - and keep its population healthier, too. America, here is your prescription...
...rationing" health care would prove controversial in the U.S., advocates of reform - from the American College of Physicians to the advocacy group Center for Medicine in the Public Interest - have suggested a system of review that doesn't take into account the cost of new treatments. This would help doctors decide a course of treatment, as currently they have no way of comparing the efficacy of different drugs for the same condition. But it could also raise prices. "In a free-market economy the manufacturers may use the effectiveness review to charge higher prices for the best drug," says Jeffrey...
...dramatic. By the afternoon of May 16, the alliance led by the Congress Party, which had been expected to squeak through to a majority, won decisively. But when it was all over, and the purple ink marks on my neighbors' fingers had started to fade, I couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. The answers to India's deepest problems seemed as far away as ever...