Why America’s Obesity Rates Will Keep Skyrocketing

And why cheap food is so cheap

Changing behaviours

Using behavioural economics to improve healthcare

Is Long-Term Care Now Out of Reach for Single Women?

Known as “gender rating,” single women are now…

Social media’s role in the rise of eating disorders

Eating disorders affect large numbers of people around the world, especially women who are made to feel inadequate by fashion magazines and glossy advertisements that depict women as only being attractive if they are thin. But now there is…

Confidentiality

and the Nursing Unit Clerk

Hospital Confidential

Imagine a stranger coming up to you, taking your cell phone off the table, and beginning to cruise through all of your text messages, emails, banking information and images. Imagine…

Healthcare: A human right for Burmese migrants  

Community Empowerment Through Healthcare

Each year the staff of the Mae Tao Clinic of Mae Sot, a Thai town on the Burmese border, fits and replaces over 250 prosthetic limbs. Each day they…

Cost of Treatment Could Influence Doctors

Lee Krahenbuhl

A Home of Partners

Healthcare today

I am the first to admit that I have a huge crush on my surgeon. It isn’t surprising really, considering our path together. When you are thrown into cancer you have to make a lot of decisions. Big decisions, life altering, and fast and with…