Monthly Archives: July 2010

Even before President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 5390) into law in March, there was much consternation among health care professionals who believed the results from health reform would...

While there is debate about the precise rate of prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder and mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) in the population of service members returning from deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan, few would disagree...

This week, a decade-long journey for advocates of HIV/AIDS policy in the United States concluded and a new chapter in American history begins. Nine years ago, at the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS, the United...

Late last month, my organization, Trust for America’s Health, issued our seventh annual report, F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America’s Future 2010, which finds adult obesity rates increased in 28 states in the past year and...

Last month, the Commonwealth Fund ranked the Dutch health system as the best performer in a study comparing health care in Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, and the United States. That wasn’t surprising. In the four years since a...