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Despite Potential Benefits, Medicare Slow to Utilize Telehealth

Annually, Medicare pays about $6 million for telehealth services, according to the IOM. In comparison, Medicare paid over $3 billion to providers participating in Electronic Health Record incentive programs from 2011 to 2012.

Moving Policymakers To Tip Scales On Childhood Obesity

Even with major initiatives from such high-profile entities as the NFL and First Lady Michelle Obama pounding the message of exercising and healthy eating, childhood obesity in the U.S shows few signs of abating. Could more influential policy be the answer?

Be still, my heart and let's wait on medical conference abstract news

Evidence is piling up about the low percentage of papers presented at scientific meetings that are ever published. So why do so many journalists continue to treat such papers as if they were sacrosanct? News coverage of the recent American Heart Association's scientific sessions is a case in point.

A Public Death: Preventing Strokes by Improving Vital Statistics

Saying someone died of a stroke is only a little more specific than saying that they died from old age. Here's what you need to know.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Buffett: Warren Buffett's Cancer as a Teachable Moment.

A million-dollar prostate, new revelations on breast cancer, the link (or lack thereof) between gum disease and heart attacks, problems with biotech crops and more from our Daily Briefing.

Nebraska school district lowers obesity rate

In 2005, almost four out of 10 kids in the Kearney, Neb., schools were obese or overweight. Five years later, Kearney had chopped the obesity rate of their grade school kids by a stunning 13 percent.

Wood researchers: Active kids do better academically

The FITNESSGRAM is a yearly test of each child's physical fitness. Body mass index is measure of fat calculated from a person's weight and height.

Daily activity affordable, Department of Education says

One in four fifth-graders has high blood pressure and cholesterol. One in four eleven-year-olds is obese, a clear red flag for the future.

Go Red For Women: Heart Disease Stories that Go Beyond the Red Dress

Go beyond event listings and corporate tie-ins to do substantial reporting on women's heart health this month. Here are some ideas to get you started.

Home Blood Pressure Monitoring: Simple Yet Valuable

Sometimes, the simplest tools in medicine are the ones that give us the most useful information. Take the humble blood pressure machine, for example. It's been around for years, and it's cheap, compared with a lot of other medical devices. It's simple to use, and it doesn't require a medical or a nursing degree to operate. But the numbers it reports are valuable in helping predict a person's risk of a host of medical problems, including heart failure, stroke and kidney failure, and can help doctors determine whether a person really needs to take medicine to control his or her high blood pressure.

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