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...spent a lot of time with the Tarahumara, a society of master runners who live in obscurity in Mexico. I'd never heard of them before. How do they manage to still stay so secluded, and what did you do to get them to trust you? They stay secluded by remaining down in the depths of this vast network of canyons. One reason they haven't blazed across the competitive circuit is because our kind of running is really stupid and foreign to them. We bust out as fast as we can from gun to tape, and the Tarahumara...
...large insurance companies setting up "Patient Centered Medical Homes" in which a portion of doctors' pay will be linked to performance targets. As in Germany, these homes will target chronic diseases by allowing doctors, nurses, dietitians and therapists to educate all patients - especially chronic ones - on how to stay healthy. In 2007, Geisinger Health System began a pilot program in Pennsylvania, hiring nurses to check on patients with diabetes, heart disease and other chronic ailments, as well as linking 20% of physician income to targets in areas such as patient weight loss, smoking cessation and cholesterol levels. After the first...
...statistical measures, such as life expectancy and infant mortality, to rank the world's health-care systems. France topped the rankings. In 2008, researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine followed up the WHO study by showing that France is not only a good place to stay healthy, but also a good place to be sick: of 19 industrialized nations, France has the lowest number of "amenable deaths" - fatalities that could have been prevented by good health care. (The U.S. had the highest.) But France is not immune to the challenges of modern health care. Despite massive...
Coming off a historic campaign and its first-ever Ivy League championship in 2007-08, the Harvard women’s golf team looked to stay atop the Ancient Eight standings and advance among the ranks nationally in 2008-09. While the Crimson would have liked to end the season on a slightly better note, Harvard accomplished precisely what it set out to do in this year’s campaign. Capturing its second Ivy League title in as many years and placing three women on the All-Ivy team—including inaugural Ivy Rookie of the Year Christine...
...decided to practice harder and play harder, certainly not let that weekend get us down,” Baise said. “In some ways, that was clear on the bus ride home. We weren’t going to stay down for long...