Thanks to a new analysis from the famous Harvard Nurse's Health Study, I have a mile-wide smile as I pour my morning coffee. This particular study looked at caffeine's effect on depression in over 50,000 women who worked in healthcare. It showed that women who consumed two to...

One of the great things about living in the digital age is the immediacy of news. You can get breaking updates 24-hours a day from infinite sources. For a news junkie like myself, I could not ask for anything more. Tablets, smartphones, iPads, computers, thousands of television channels ... it's...

Every physician I have spoken with recently has smiled and nodded in understanding when we talk about our wonderful patients and their adventures with the Internet. There is an emerging phenomenon where folks are showing up in medical offices across the country locked and loaded with endless streams of data...

There once was a man who set a world record of 1,033 push-ups in 23 minutes at the age of 42. At the tender age of 60, this same person swam from Alcatraz Island to Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco. Figuring the swimming part was too easy a feat on...

You have the right to remain silent. Anything you eat can and will be used against you on the bathroom scale. You have the right to an aerobics class. If you cannot afford a gym, a park or sidewalk will be provided for you. Do you understand these rights and...

All year long, newscasts have been filled with stories on healthcare reform and obesity in America. There's no doubt that our current medical care delivery system is in need of some repair and refinement. And, most agree that we have an obesity epidemic on our hands. We need funds to...