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Election Brings Victory for The Older Generation

washingtonpost.com - Health  Mon, 11/10/2008 - 20:15

Actually, the older man won the election. No, no, no, you protest: President-elect Barack Obama, age 47, won a decisive victory over Sen.

John McCain, age 72. But that is true only if you look at age through the narrow prism of chronological years.

Much more important are psychosocial and biologi...


 

Candidates' Health Plans: Healthy Impact?

WebMD Health  Thu, 10/02/2008 - 17:12

Twice as many uninsured people in the U.S. will have health insurance in 10 years under Sen. Barack Obama's health care plan than under Sen.

John McCain's plan, according to a report by the health care research group The Commonwealth Fund.


 

Candidates' Abortion Views Not So Simple

washingtonpost.com - Health  Tue, 08/19/2008 - 23:00

The narrative of the presidential campaign appeared to be set on the issue of abortion: Sen. Barack Obama was the abortion-rights candidate who was reaching out to foes, seeking common ground and making inroads.

Sen. John McCain was the abortion opponent whose reticence about faith and whose batt...


 

Doctors Balk at Electronic Records

washingtonpost.com - Health  Mon, 06/23/2008 - 23:00

Replacing the manila folders behind your doctor's reception desk with more efficient and less error-prone electronic health records (EHRs) is a reform endorsed by both Sen.

John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.). But the transition to computer-based systems seems to be going slowly ...


 

McCain's Doctors Say the State of the Candidate's Health Is Exce...

MedPage Today Infectious Disease  Fri, 05/23/2008 - 17:55

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., -- Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, was among the multitude of Americans who stopped taking ezetimibe/simvastatin (Vytorin) after publication of the ENHANCE trial, which found the drug did not reduce plaque burden