Beyond Guantanamo: Torture Thrives in Connecticut
In the case of Coleman v. Lantz, Connecticut has argued for the right to force feed a hunger-striking inmate in an excruciatingly painful manner.
In the case of Coleman v. Lantz, Connecticut has argued for the right to force feed a hunger-striking inmate in an excruciatingly painful manner.
AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 11.15.2009 | Home
WASHINGTON — The government paid more than $47 billion in questionable Medicare claims including medical treatment showing little relation to a ...
New York Times | DAVID LEONHARDT | Posted 11.08.2009 | Living
The health care debate of 2009 has had so many moving parts that it has sometimes seemed impossible to follow. The crisis behind the debate, though, i...
The Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Fred Schulte | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business
Editor's note: This story is published in conjunction with American University's Investigative Reporting Workshop. The government's $45 billion pl...
Ellen Langer | Posted 10.29.2009 | Living
The medical world encourages us to get a second opinion before embarking on expensive procedures. While getting a second opinion may seem straightforward, the process is not so simple.
AP | BOB SALSBERG | Posted 10.28.2009 | Home
BOSTON — A man stabbed a doctor while being treated at a psychiatric office at a Boston medical building Tuesday and was fatally shot by an off-...
Lee Lipsenthal, M.D. | Posted 10.27.2009 | Living
The first emotion that came to me, the day of my diagnosis, was a surprising sense of freedom.
D. Brad Wright | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics
It takes much less effort to convince people that insurance companies need to be made more accountable than it does to convince people that their doctors need to make less money.
Miles Klee | Posted 10.18.2009 | Comedy
Jack Kevorkian: Rickrollers experience no quality of life and want to give up some things more than others.
Dr. Cara Natterson | Posted 10.13.2009 | Books
I hope that parents find relief with Dangerous or Safe?. I hope that they read it and take a long, deep breath. I hope it changes a few behaviors, but more importantly I hope it affects perspective.
AP | RITA BEAMISH and ALAN FRAM | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
The Republican Party is harnessing the furious debate over health care to raise campaign cash from doctors, dangling the promise of including donors' ...
Jim Jaffe | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics
Each time politicians seeking to make a deal try to move the ball forward, there's a vocal reaction from those who can't tell the difference between making a deal and selling out.
Jacob M. Appel | Posted 10.02.2009 | Politics
Senator Coburn claims physician-patient privilege to avoid testifying against Ensign. But this is not a "Get out of Jail Free" card for physicians who acquire knowledge outside of their work as doctors.
The Huffington Post | Posted 10.02.2009 | Politics
A new survey was released on Friday indicating overwhelming support among doctors that the public option must be included as a part health care reform...
wsj.com | PHILIP K. HOWARD | Posted 11.29.2009 | Politics
Eliminating defensive medicine could save upwards of $200 billion in health-care costs annually, according to estimates by the American Medical Associ...
The Colorado Springs Gazette | Bill Radford | Posted 11.25.2009 | Denver
It was a house call that Dr. Joseph Hegarty and others won't soon forget. Hegarty, an ear surgeon from Colorado Springs Ear Associates, performed sur...
Sep. 24, 2009 | Parija B. Kavilanz | Posted 11.25.2009 | Business
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- President Obama's former personal physician of 22 years, Dr. David Scheiner, has been very vocal on the issue of health ins...
health.com | Posted 11.22.2009 | Living
The way you talk to your doctor may be as important as anything you say. To make the most of an appointment, follow these expert-recommended steps....
Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 11.21.2009 | Living
Not enough attention seems focused on ensuring health care systems' preparedness to deal with cognitive health issues -- with Alzheimer's Disease as the most dramatic example.
Tara Stiles | Posted 11.18.2009 | Living
How long would you last resisting the marshmallow? That is the question asked in the "kid torture" video, a recreation of the study done in the 1960s at Stanford analyzing behavior, willpower, and success.
Anne Hill | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living
While dream of physical health issues are quite common, doctors have been slow to catch on to the diagnostic potential of dream reports.
D. Brad Wright | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
A poll found that physicians overwhelmingly support a public option approach to health reform. That is, they want to see a mixed public-private approach.
Diane Francis | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
As an American living in Canada, it's really embarrassing that a country as smart and rich as the United States cannot get out from under the world's worst medical system.
msn.com | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living
Exhausted Australian doctors have been told to drink up to six cups of coffee a day to stay awake during extended shifts, building pressure on Prime M...
Peter Jan Honigsberg | Posted 10.23.2009 | World
We hope to film hundreds of interviews of former Guantanamo detainees. We are determined to document the systematic human rights abuses and rule of law violations at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Jacob M. Appel | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics