Create a healthy society through pono education
The upcoming Hawaii International Health and Education Kolisko Conference aims to inspire the future of education and health care. Read more
Wealth of Health
Cutting health programs to pay for road initiatives is unwise
Expect key American entitlements — Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security — to be on the chopping block in Congress this year. Read more
Raising insurance coverage for non-opioid treatment could help crisis
The opioid epidemic remains a leading and escalating public health crisis with 2 million Americans now dependent on opiates at an annual cost of $78.5 billion in the U.S. Read more
Conference to explore emerging field of regenerative medicine
Regenerative medicine aims to cultivate new living tissue to replace or repair function that has been lost as the result of normal aging, disease or trauma. Read more
Bipartisan effort to repair Obamacare is only answer
Repealing Obamacare is not the answer. Placing it under siege is even worse. Efforts to forge a bipartisan solution to improve and refine this legislation, which is already insuring so many more Americans, is the only reasonable course of action. Read more
Mindfulness meditation offers low-cost way to boost health
Mindfulness exercises assisted patients in better understanding their pain and to separate the actual pain from fear, uncertainty and old memories. It also helped participants make better lifestyle choices and assess appropriate activity levels, food intake and how much medication they actually needed. Read more
Drug companies face more lawsuits over opiate epidemic
The pharmaceutical industry is facing an onslaught of legal action by state, city and county governments on the mainland in response to the opiate epidemic. Read more
Advice on living healthy fills a day at book and music fest
How can we best overcome the myriad obstacles to achieving sustainable health through balance, ranging from the stress encountered in our workaday lives to unproductive lifestyle patterns to poor relationship choices? Read more
Hawaii remains committed to fight for good health care
Although far from perfect, for now, Hawaii remains among the best states for quality and access to health care, but these are uncertain times. Read more
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Society shouldn’t be eager to hurry the finality of death
To be sure, we must be more measured in choosing interventional care if there is little chance for quality of life and more prepared to withdraw care that extends life artificially, but we should never pass a law that condones actively facilitating death by any means. Read more
Investment in Cancer Center will benefit health, economy
With continuing support from the state Legislature and the National Cancer Institute, the University of Hawaii Cancer Center will reach its full potential as a world-class institution at the forefront of groundbreaking cancer research, prevention and clinical treatment. Read more
Partnership could assist Hawaii’s shortage of doctors
The people of Hawaii continue to suffer from a severe and escalating physician shortage, especially on the neighbor islands. Read more
Hawaii won’t be immune to changes in health care
The Affordable Care Act of 2010, better known as Obamacare, now insures 20 million lives and covers roughly half of those who were without health insurance prior to its inception. Read more
Plague of painkiller deaths requires swift collective fight
Deaths from accidental overdoses of opiate pain medicines have more than quadrupled in the new millennium and currently outnumber deaths from heroin and cocaine. Read more
More must be done to find, treat serious brain injuries
This season the National Football League is responding to increasing concerns over traumatic brain injuries suffered during play. Read more
Health care advances raise big fiscal, ethical questions
Given the current trajectory of pharmaceutical and biotechnical developments in the treatment of cancer, inherited diseases and infection, modern health care is on the precipice of unprecedented transformation. Read more
Accepting death as natural would alleviate fear, stress
Society continues to have difficulty accepting death as a natural part of life. We go on hoping it won’t happen to us, at least for now, and when death raises its head, we look the other way. The result is fear, confusion, denial, poor decision-making and an unskillful use of resources. Read more
Kidney disease prevention, therapy requires innovation
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the kidneys are the root of Qi. They hold the basic life force, have much to do with how long a person lives and, when weak, make us vulnerable to myriad illnesses. Read more
Yearly festival hosts series of panels on local wellness
Almost everyone seeks health, prosperity and freedom from suffering for ourselves, our loved ones and the world around us. Read more
Sanders’ health care plan well-intentioned but faulty
Last week I accepted an invitation to serve as an observer at the Democratic caucus in Bonner County, Idaho. Bernie Sanders won by a landslide. Read more
Time will tell whether health insurer’s new model succeeds
Hawaii Medical Service Association is on the verge of making a historic change in how it reimburses primary care medical providers. Until now the largest private payer in the state has reimbursed physicians on a fee-for-service basis. Under its Payment Transformation Pilot, HMSA will instead pay selected providers a fixed dollar amount for each member in their practice each month. HMSA believes that this will benefit patients, providers and the insurer because it will improve clinical outcomes and contain costs. Will it work? That remains to be seen. Read more
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