Harvard Health Letter articles from March 2009

Harvard Health Letter archives from March 2009

12 ways to cut health care costs.
March 1, 2009... 12 ways to cut health care costs How you can rein in health care bills * yours and society's. Our carbon footprints are calculations of the greenhouse gases we're individually responsible for. Reduce yours, and you can take some...

In brief: The shoulds - and the shouldn'ts - of getting your shots.
March 1, 2009... In brief The shoulds * and the shouldn'ts * of getting your shots Vaccination used to seem simple and straightforward: the annual flu shot, the tetanus booster, a few others. Besides, vaccines were mainly for kids. Now, like...

All the pretty pictures.(Report)
March 1, 2009... All the pretty pictures CT scans can speed a diagnosis and make it more accurate, but there's also cost and radiation to worry about. The economy is in a downturn, but these are boom times for medical imaging. Old-fashioned film x-rays...

Weighing on our minds.(Report)
March 1, 2009... Weighing on our minds The abdominal fat we put on in middle age may wind up causing dementia when we're older. The woes that can arise from being overweight are pretty familiar by now: high blood pressure, diabetes, heart attacks,...

By the way, doctor: What might have caused my sister and brother-in-law's pulmonary embolisms?
March 1, 2009... By the way, doctor What might have caused my sister and brother-in-law's pulmonary embolisms? Q. Within a three-month period, both my sister and her husband (both in their 40s) were hospitalized with pulmonary embolisms. Any thoughts...