Stress is a word that most of us toss off lightly, a word we use to describe our emotional response to any number of emergencies, demands, deadlines, or pressures. But technically, stress is both a psychological and physical response. Along with the new millennium, we have a new kind of...

Maybe it's time to put daily stress reduction activities more front and center in the big picture of a personal preventive health strategy.

It's beginning to look like our lives are more at stake than we care to acknowledge and if we don't do something different, well...any one of...

As a physician taking care of people who are losing health care coverage, it's astounding how much distortion I hear in the news about what the president's plan will do to citizens if it's enacted. Many of us are in such a state of media-propelled fear and panic that we...

Earlier this year in February, the Congressional Budget Office predicted that without changes in federal policy, the number of Americans without health insurance would grow from about 45 million this year to about 54 million in 2019 . But 2019 is years away and I wonder in the more immediate...

This past week, New York City's Health Commissioner, Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, announced a laundry list of medical conditions that aggravate the effects of swine flu and leave you more vulnerable. Many of these diseases are well known to all: diabetes, asthma, heart disease, lung problems, possibly obesity and a...

President Obama signed the credit card reform bill this week with a rider permitting guns in National parks and wildlife refuges. As a primary care physician I feel that encouraging open access to guns in yet another public venue aggravates what is already a serious public health concern. We doctors...