FEATURE: Say what you will about Walmart, but it’s hard to argue with their slogan: “Save money. Live better.” Who doesn’t want that?
Discount department and warehouse stores like Walmart use their market power to buy products from suppliers in bulk – thereby lowering purchasing price and distribution costs. The cost-savings can then be transferred on to the customer.
Unfortunately, in a time of escalating healthcare costs, the U.S. government has yet to bring the same economic principles to bear on a major healthcare expense: prescription drugs purchased through Medicare Continue reading Buying in Bulk
FEATURE: According to the American Pregnancy Association, there are approximately 60 million women of childbearing age (age 15 to 44) in the U.S. and approximately 6 million pregnancies each year. Yet, there is much we do not know about the effects of many of our health care decisions on pregnancy, from pharmaceutical treatments for mental health disorders to procedures such as uterine fibroid embolization. Furthermore, pregnancy is a major stressor on the body and is accompanied by significant physiological changes for the pregnant woman. 
In a recent New York Times article, Susan Okie wrote about the need for health-care cost and cost-efficacy training in 
FEATURE: The short answer to this question is no. In 2009, health care accounted for 17.3% of our GDP. In 2009, healthcare spending increased 5.7% up from 4.4% in 2008 [1]. Yet, the U.S. has only the 49th best outcome for life expectancy in the world [2]. Furthermore, in 2007 more than 60% of bankruptcies in the U.S. were linked to an inability to pay medical bills in a system that is not necessarily worth losing your house over. 
FEATURE: Quality is defined as “the measure of excellence.” But, in healthcare what do you measure? How do you assess quality? And why should we do so?
FEATURE: Microfinance in India may have started over thirty years ago as a small-scale approach to reducing poverty, but by 2011 the market is expected to grow to $5.7 billion USD[1]. One of the more widely used microfinance models in India – the 
