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By Jamie Elizabeth Rosen, Editor, Real World Health Care | Feb 13, 2014

Smoking Out Nicotine Addiction: What’s Working in the War on Cigarettes

With CVS Pharmacy’s recent announcement that cigarettes and other tobacco containing products will no longer be sold in its stores, Real World Health Care has been crunching the numbers on the success of anti-tobacco efforts and reviewing recent advances in smoking cessation. Here’s what we’ve found: #1. Smoking still holds…more.

Categories: General, Prevention/Patient-Centered Care
By Jamie Elizabeth Rosen, Editor, Real World Health Care | Feb 4, 2014

World Cancer Day 2014: What’s Working in Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment?

Today is World Cancer Day, an annual awareness day that aims to help save millions of people globally from preventable deaths each year. Americans continue to make advances against many forms of cancer, although progress still remains slow against other forms of cancer, such as pancreatic and glioblastoma, that urgently…more.

Categories: General
By Jamie Elizabeth Rosen, Editor, Real World Health Care | Jan 31, 2014

What’s Getting Lost in the Health Care Debate?

Health care has never been more highly politicized than today. Last year, it was central to the third longest government shutdown in U.S. history. This week, it consumed a large chunk of President Obama’s State of the Union address. Every day, we are inundated by news of health exchange website…more.

Categories: General
By Linda Barlow | Mar 12, 2013

Three Pillars of Health Care Success: Cost Savings, Prevention/Patient-Centered Care, and Access to Care

Welcome to www.RealWorldHealthCare.org, a blog dedicated to showing what’s working to improve health care in the U.S. Why are we talking about improving access to good medical care? Rising costs could bankrupt us, and most people need to do a better job of preventing illness. But digging deeper, you may…more.

Categories: General