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Memorable Stories of 2008

A host of meaningful stories from Miller-McCune.com's first full year on the Web.

Is Criminalizing Mental Health Wise Policy?

Much of the money spent on the severely mentally ill is spent putting and holding them in prison.

Health Care After You Leave the Doctor’s Office

Community-based outreach to address diabetic health care disparities offers broader lessons.

Death by Pink Slip

A film on a health care system that impoverishes and kills people, just because they lose their jobs.

Health Care That Capitalizes on Social Ties

Portland-area researchers find that investing in social capital improves health among the disadvantaged.

A New Therapy for America’s Aging Hospitals

What can good hospital design achieve? How about healthier patients?

Buying the Farm

With health insurance costs these days, why not just buy the whole clinic?

Take Two Aspirin and Call Your Architect in the Morning

Safety by design is a guiding ethos as a new and smarter style of health care building looks at error prevention and stress reduction.

Dying for Coverage: Charting the Insurance Gap

A recent study shows that life spans are decreasing for some regions in America where reduced access to Medicaid is common.

A Prognosis on Mandates and Guarantees

"Experiments" in eight states provide pointers on how America might provide guaranteed health insurance.