Activist artist Molly Crabapple's new series of paintings titled "Shell Game" at Smart Clothes Gallery in New York portray a darkly humorous year in c...
We all need to be part of the solution. If so, then everyone benefits from improved health, and health care services can be provided in a prudent, efficient and effective way.
We are indebted to the late Dr. Barbara Starfield of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health for this basic definition of the four pillars of primary care.
Older Americans are the deepest source of wisdom, values, and character we have as a nation. We owe them a debt of gratitude more profound than any other. And we have a responsibility to care for them as they spent their lives caring for us.
I set out to collect and formulate some straightforward, memorable, everyday rules for eating, a set of personal policies that would, taken together or even separately, nudge people onto a healthier and happier path.
My lab, and my practice, is located in Griffin Hospital in Derby, CT. Griffin is a Yale-affiliated, not-for-profit, community hospital. It is also a model for its industry, with no offense to any others that are as well.
What does the doctor need to say to trigger you to do those things that you probably already know you should do? What sort of information would compel you to take action?
As part of the Huffington Post's efforts to bear witness to the effects of the current economic environment on ordinary Americans, we're rounding up s...
This Labor Day, let's recommit ourselves to helping workers organize and fight for their rights. Let's work together to win meaningful reforms that ensure access to quality, affordable health care.
Seventy-eight percent of the people who had to file for medical-related bankruptcy actually had health insurance. Hillary St. Pierre, a spunky 27-year-old mother, is a case in point.
As President Barack Obama prepares to address the nation tonight, a new survey provides a boost to his claim that the health care system is at a peril...
This is our third installment of Dispatches from the Displaced, in which just one of the 10,000 people who lose the their house each weekday shares hi...
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Our country faces significant health challenges including skyrocketing costs, declining funding for scientific research, and lack of innovation in the government's response to emerging threats.
Last year at this time, health coverage may well have been among the last things on Terri Rushing's mind.
Her husband, David, was 55 years old and wo...
"Free-market" health care is as perverse an incentive as free-market police and fire protection would be, leaving everyone vulnerable, at the mercy of the marketplace.