www.fastcompany.com | Posted 01.11.2012
The average auto refractor--that clunky-looking device eye doctors use to pinpoint your prescription--weighs about 40 pounds, costs $10,000, and is vi...
Judith Acosta | Posted 03.06.2012
Because of the authority with which words like "clinical depression" or "bipolar" are used in modern conversation, they are given the impression that those words have a permanence and solidity they do not actually have.
Barbara Dehn | Posted 02.07.2012
Here's a guy, who has been working hard his entire life, was laid off, lost his insurance and couldn't afford to go to see a doctor and didn't think he could afford his blood pressure medication.
Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff | Posted 01.15.2012
These new studies once again underscore the necessity for us as parents to communicate with our pediatricians and not be afraid to ask questions when a prescription is offered.
littleneck.patch.com | Posted 01.10.2012
"We know our customers on a one-on-one basis, by their names. We try to help them on a personal level."...
Cliff Schecter | Posted 06.06.2011
Nowhere is this greed more pervasive than among those companies responsible for the health of roughly 300 million of Americans: Big Pharma.
Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD | Posted 05.25.2011
A good chunk of those beautifully printed, fully legible prescriptions never make it to the drug store to be converted into actual pills.
AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will not seek to arrest medical marijuana users and suppliers as long as they conform to state laws, under...
Lauri Lyons | Posted 05.25.2011
The Apollo Theater's memorial tribute to Michael Jackson might as well have been Mardi Gras in Harlem.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles pharmacist told Anna Nicole Smith's internist that the drugs the internist prescribed to the model after her son die...
nytimes.com | MILT FREUDENHEIM | Posted 05.25.2011
MORE than 10 years after she tried without success to have a baby, Marcy Campbell Krinsk is still receiving painful reminders in her mail. The ads and...
Mike Nellis | Posted 05.25.2011
"I feel like I have paid my insurance company thousands of dollars for nothing," Anne said, "and now I am going to have to drop my coverage because I just can't afford it anymore."
Barbara Dehn | Posted 05.25.2011
I understand the need to cut costs, but in my opinion, some insurance companies are practicing health care without a license. They have none of the liability and yet are part of the decision-making? What's up with that?
Ted McCagg | Posted 05.13.2012