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| Published Feb. 18, 2010 |
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Consumer education is a key component of the Public Employees’ Benefit Board Vision for healthcare. From time to time, PEBB publishes links to articles and resources about health, healthcare choices and how they can affect your benefits.
How a Bone Disease Grew to Fit the Prescription: On osteoporosis, osteopenia, bone scans and prescription drugs
By Alix Spiegel
Aired by National Public Radio, Dec. 21, 2009
Listen and read: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121609815
Preventing Diabetes: small changes have big payoff: If it's hard to imagine how small differences in lifestyle can make a big difference in your health, consider this story of identical twins…
By Allison Aubrey
Aired by National Public Radio, Jan. 4, 2010
Read or listen: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122104219
New Years Resolutions Aren’t The Only Path to Health: Nearly 200 Humboldt County, Calif., residents changed their lives last year and it didn't cost them a cent.
By Carol Harrison
Published in the Tri-City Weekly, Jan. 5, 2010
Read more: http://www.times-standard.com/tcw/ci_14124709
Atul Guwande’s ‘Checklist’ for Surgery Success: What happens when surgeons follow checklists; with an excerpt from the author’s new book, The Checklist Manifesto
Interview with Steve Inskeep
Aired by National Public Radio, Jan. 5, 2010
Listen and read and excerpt: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122226184
Giving Teeth to Comparative-Effectiveness Research: Staff of the state’s Office of Health Policy and Research share the Oregon Experience
By Somnath Saha, M.D., M.P.H., Darren D. Coffman, M.S., and Ariel K. Smits, M.D., M.P.H.
Published by NEJM.org (New England Journal of Medicine), Feb. 3, 2010
Read more: http://content.nejm.org/cgi/reprint/NEJMp0912938.pdf?ssource=hcrc
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