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...language. They're shapeless and abstract, they bar the sufferer from reading and writing, and when they subside, they often erase our memories of them on the way out. Nevertheless, a literature of migraines has formed over the centuries. The founding father of migraine theory is a Victorian physician named Edward Liveing, who called them "nerve-storms," but references to them can be pried out of Sumerian documents 5,000 years old. The history of their treatment is about as bizarre and useless a medical menagerie as you could wish for. (Two words: beaver testes.) It's only...
Howard A. Zucker is a physician, attorney, and former Assistant Director-General of the World Health Organization, who served as a Resident Fellow at the Institute of Politics this past semester...
...funding to implement such schemes. In America's health system, there are few financial incentives for providers to take proactive measures to keep people healthy: the longer and more extensively a doctor or hospital treats a patient, the more income they recoup. That's why the American College of Physicians and others are calling for reform in health-care reimbursement, with the Federal Government and large insurance companies setting up "Patient Centered Medical Homes" in which a portion of doctors' pay will be linked to performance targets. As in Germany, these homes will target chronic diseases by allowing doctors, nurses...
...daily workings and must also respond quickly to epidemics. In April, Rosenthal was involved in closing the Harvard School of Dental Medicine after a dental student was suspected to have swine flu. “He’s been able to do so many things as a physician, all the things that he’s really good at,” Rosenthal’s daughter Laura Hrasky said. Rosenthal’s career also reaches far beyond Harvard’s walls. He was the President of the American Cancer Society in 1998 and remains involved with...
...appears then, that current players' high level of physical fitness "more or less mitigates the effect of large size when it comes to cardiovascular risk," says Dr. Andrew Tucker, head physician for the Baltimore Ravens and co-author of the study, which was published in the May 27 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA...