Health reform in Mass., fruit-veggie deficits and @#$! cancer: The ReportingonHealth Daily Briefing
September 09, 2010
Here's what we're reading today:
Health Reform: KBUR's Common Health Blog's Carey Goldberg finds "nuggets" that can serve as great health reform story ideas in a new Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on how health care reform has affected Massachusetts.
Nutrition: Americans already don't eat enough fruits and vegetables for health (as determined by the federal government) and now they're eating even less of them, especially in Oklahoma and South Dakota, who rank at the bottom for produce consumption. The Associated Press' Mike Stobbe has the story.
Health Access: Just because you have better access to a primary care doctor doesn't mean you'll get better care, according to a new analysis from the venerable Dartmouth Atlas Project.
Prescription Drugs: Managed Care Matters' Joe Paduda continues his fantastic investigative reporting on some pharmacy benefit management companies' absurdly high charges for workers' comp drugs.
Cancer: A new cancer awareness social media campaign is centered on the f-word. But will the campaign provoke more than it educates?
