Tag: Chronic illness

  • Health

    Even among the insured, cost of illness can be devastating

    Professor Robert Blendon of Harvard Chan School led discussion of a new poll that shows devastating costs in serious illness even among patients with health insurance.

    Harvard Chan School forum on Seriously Ill in America: Panelists Toyin Ajayi, Robert Master, Eric Schneider, Robert Blendon.
  • Science & Tech

    Dangerous heat

    New research from the Harvard School of Public Health suggests that seemingly small changes in summer temperature swings may shorten life expectancy for elderly people with chronic medical conditions, and could result in thousands of additional deaths each year.