Late Friday afternoon, President Obama issued an Executive Order establishing the National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health Council. The Council will provide national coordination of all prevention and wellness efforts across agencies, develop a national health promotion strategy and...

Associated Press reporter Lauran Neergaard writes in her recent article, “Overtreated: More medical care isn't always better,” that “more medical care won't necessarily make you healthier…overtreatment, is a big contributor to runaway health care costs.”  She is certainly correct that unnecessary...

Last fall, I wrote about the need to put our obesity epidemic at the top of the health care agenda. The release of a landmark report by the White House Childhood Obesity Task Force earlier this week moves this issue closer to the forefront of the discussion. While the report focuses on childhood...

CDC and others have come out with an interesting study on costs related to cancer. The study was published in Cancer, the American Cancer Society's medical journal and you can read about it here. In a nutshell, the study found that the cost of treating cancer has nearly doubled over the past two...