The Business of Health Archive for The Checkup

Sour Economy Hits Health

There's more evidence out this week that the recession is having an impact on people's health. Two new surveys from major doctors' groups indicate that people are cutting back on things that will help keep them healthy and putting off seeing a doctor if they do get sick. In March,...

Is That Right? Juicy Juice for Brain Development

The other day I blogged about the FDA's nabbing General Mills for inappropriately printing specific health claims (the kind reserved for drugs) on Cheerios boxes. I'm not the only observer who felt that, while the FDA was certainly within its rights to call out the cereal maker for not playing...

Plus-Size Clothes, continued...

If it were up to readers of The Checkup, stores would offer plenty of flattering clothes in larger sizes so plus-size teens could step out in style. The poll in last week's blog had 93 percent of 1,175 voters weighing in in favor of making such clothing available for young...

Vaccines: Bad Business for Doctors?

We in America seem to take the ready availability of vaccines for granted. Every so often there's a shortage of one vaccination or another, but for the most part we feel confident that we and our children will have access to the shots that protect us against a wide range...

Patients Unmoved by Internet Doctor Ratings

Fewer than a quarter of 1,007 California adults who responded to a Harris Interactive poll commissioned by the California HealthCare Foundation visited physician-ratings sites, according to an article in American Medical News, an online publication of the American Medical Association. And only 2 percent of those surveyed changed doctors on...

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