Marcia Clemmitt
Health and Health Care
Path to Better Eating Strewn With Traps
CQ Press, November 30th, 2012
Caring for the Poorest and Sickest
CQ Press, September 21st, 2012
Assessing the New Health Care Law
CQ Press , September 21st, 2012
"There are lots of ways in which states can actually save money on the expansion."
CQ Press , August 3rd, 2012
"These children are often socially rejected by their peers, sometimes within five minutes."
Non-drug Therapies May Help With ADHD
CQ Press , August 3rd, 2012
CQ Press , June 1st, 2012
"It's pretty clear that if a brain-injured person gets a psychiatric illness, the symptom pattern is magnified."
Are TBIs Being Diagnosed Accurately?
CQ Press , June 1st, 2012
Brain Trauma Often Unfolds in Stages
CQ Press , June 1st, 2012
Researchers Explore Frontiers of Brain Injury
CQ Press , June 1st, 2012
Parental Involvement Can Make a Difference
CQ Press , March 26th, 2010
CQ Press , March 26th, 2010
"It's not like people in their teens didn't have sex all along. But they got married. And then, in the '60s, they started to not get married."
CQ Press , February 12th, 2010
CQ Press , February 12th, 2010
The Deadly Impact of Chronic Sleep Deprivation
CQ Press , February 12th, 2010
Finally, a name for my illness
CQR Blog, October 21st, 2009
Nothing but a real disease could explain the sore throats, extreme chills, itchy patches of super-dry skin and memory and concentration difficulties that I periodically experienced along with intense tiredness and sleeplessness.
Fickle Finger of Fate Can Make Painkillers Addictive
CQ Press , October 9th, 2009
How to Avoid Problems With Medications
CQ Press, October 9th, 2009
Doctors Faulted for Prescribing Addictive Painkillers
CQ Press, October 8th, 2009
Memories of Covering Sen. Edward M. Kennedy
CQR Blog , August 26th, 2009
His long career in the Senate... was marked by an unrelenting focus on, someday, somehow, ensuring that all Americans would have reliable, affordable health insurance.
CQ Press , June 26th, 2009
"In a pluralistic society, you want to have an acceptance of a broad range of things as normal."
CQ Press , May 15th, 2009
"So much of your life feels out of control when you want a child but find that you can't have one."
Are Extreme Sports More Dangerous than Other Sports?
CQ Press , April 3rd, 2009
CQ Press , September 12th, 2008
CQ Press , September 12th, 2008
Many Heart Disease Risk Factors Are Controllable
CQ Press , September 12th, 2008
CQ Press, July 3rd, 2008
"I worry that with biofuels, the food market will end up looking like the worldwide pharmaceutical market. The rich will get theirs, and the poor will die."
Tips on Holding Onto Your Memory
CQ Press , April 4th, 2008
Errors Provide Clues to Memory's Mysteries
CQ Press , April 4th, 2008
Understanding of Dyslexia Is Emerging
CQ Press , February 22nd, 2008
CQ Press , February 9th, 2007
"I look like the Campbell's Soup girl, and I shot heroin when I was 16."
CQ Press , January 5th, 2007
"The average male in the New York prison system has 12 or 13 bad teeth, and the average woman two or three more. Most have never seen a dentist."
CQ Press , October 13th, 2006
"We're discriminating in favor of the diseases people might have prevented themselves."
CQ Press , September 1st, 2006
"I would rather save lives and not worry about angels on the head of a pin."
Health Care Information Center , April 11th, 2005
"I've seen nurses be much more willing" to adapt to the demands of the e-world. "I hope the nurses will help physicians along."
For AMA, Medicare Chief Inserts Some Pills in Sugar
Medicine & Health, March 15th, 2005
Medicine & Health, February 15th, 2005
Analysts Want to Buy Value, But Public May Not Be Ready
Medicine & Health, December 13th, 2004
Five Years After Medical-Error Report, Progress Is Hard to See
Medicine & Health, November 8th, 2004
Tech Coverage: "Show Me the Money" vs. "Show Me the Value"
Medicine & Health, November 1st, 2004
Doc-Owned Specialty Hospitals Have Clinical Pros and Cons
Medicine & Health, October 4th, 2004
Payment, the Uninsured Loom Large in Specialty Hospital Debate
Medicine & Health, September 27th, 2004
Specialty Hospital Fight to Return With Vengeance in 2005
Medicine & Health, September 20th, 2004
Health Care Information Center , June 28th, 2004
Employers Seek Many-Fold Path to Medicare Drug Subsidies
Medicine & Health, June 14th, 2004
Health Literacy: How Many Patients Are Left Behind?
Medicine & Health, April 19th, 2004
GOP: Consumerism Must Work or Single Payer's On the Way
Medicine & Health, March 15th, 2004
Thomas Takes Aim Again at Tax-Favored Employer Coverage
Medicine & Health, February 16th, 2004
Disease Management Evolves, As Its Medicare Fate Hangs in Balance
Medicine & Health, November 17th, 2003
How Far Is It From E-Record Vision to Reality?
Medicine & Health, November 10th, 2003
Views Differ on Employer Response to Rx Bill
Medicine & Health, October 27th, 2003
Hospital Finances Still a Guessing Game for Analysts
Medicine & Health , October 6th, 2003
Insurers Gear Up to Fight National Health Insurance
Medicine & Health , September 15th, 2003
Survey respondents gave "national health insurance" 57 fat points on McInturff's polling "thermometer" -- which measures the extent to which a word gives listeners warm, fuzzy feelings. "Government-run health care" registered a chilly 41.
Supply, Prices -- Not Quality -- Push Spending Skyward
Medicine & Health, June 23rd, 2003
Integrated Care Moves to Center of Medicare Debate
Medicine & Health, April 7th, 2003
Health Care Information Center , November 11th, 2002
Beyond Sticks and Carrots: Why Error Bills Can't Do It All
Medicine & Health, October 11th, 2002
Work Environment a Top Issue in Nurse Retention
Medicine & Health, August 13th, 2001
Rural Care Not on Life Support, But PPS Changes Needed
Medicine & Health, June 18th, 2001
It's Lonely in the Middle of the Road: Big Story Is Compromises Not Agreed To
Medicine & Health, January 1st, 2001
Big-Picture Thinking Needed: Financing Medicare for the Long Haul
Medicine & Health, October 30th, 2000
Will Genome Science Shift Clinical, Insurance Paradigms?
Medicine & Health, September 26th, 2000
Caring for the Underserved: It's a Tough Job and Nobody Has to Do It
Medicine & Health, August 7th, 2000
Pain Act: For Foes and Supporters a Matter of, FIrst, Do No Harm
Medicine & Health , May 8th, 2000
Big Gaps Outweigh Small Gains in Struggle for Better Indian Health
Medicine & Health, September 7th, 1998
Sports Scientists See Their Work Yielding Gains in Public Health
The Scientist, May 11th, 1992
"There are 3 million coaches [in the United States] and an annual turnover rate of 40 percent among volunteer coaches. These people can do a lot of good or a lot of harm depending on what they know or don't know."