Tag: "health care"

Reconnecting Science, Religion and Health Care

Reconnecting Science, Religion and Health Care

I think that science is fundamentally about information and religion is fundamentally about relationship. The word religion comes from the Latin "to reconnect."

 
Jim Gunshinan

Post on Oct 02, 2009 by

Science Event Pick: The Long Quest for Health Care Reform

Science Event Pick: The Long Quest for Health Care Reform

There are health systems around the country that actually have costs that are as much as 20 percent or 30 percent lower than the national average and have higher quality. What is it that they are doing differently from other systems?

 
Kishore Hari

Post on Aug 24, 2009 by

Producer's Notes: Asthma

Producer's Notes: Asthma

Researchers are still very much working to figure out what, besides changes in the way asthma is diagnosed, might account for the 160 percent rise in the rate of asthma in children younger than five.

 
Gabriela Quirós

Post on May 19, 2009 by

KQED's Health Dialogues launches discussion on health care reform

KQED's Health Dialogues launches discussion on health care reform

In his 100th day press briefing a few days ago, President Obama reiterated his desire to enact health care reform by the end of 2009 and called on all Americans to submit our ideas. So, Health Dialogues decided to let Washington know what Californians think.

 
Craig Rosa

Post on May 05, 2009 by

Reporter's Notes: The Graying of HIV

Reporter's Notes: The Graying of HIV

Some 30 researchers from the University of California-San Francisco and the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology have come together to investigate why HIV-positive patients, who are now living longer lives thanks to anti-retroviral drugs, seem to be aging faster than their uninfected peers.

 
Gabriela Quirós

Post on Nov 26, 2008 by

You're as likely to be struck by lightning as to have a severe reaction to a vaccine.

Vaccines: One Small Risk for a Child, One Giant Benefit for Mankind

You're as likely to be struck by lightningas to have a severe reaction to a vaccine. I was reading an article in Time last week about parents not vaccinating their children. The story was about how this phenomenon is becoming more widespread. These kinds of stories are weird to me because vaccines are pretty safe. [...]

 
Dr. Barry Starr

Post on Jun 06, 2008 by