The first principle of palliative medicine is to relieve the pain and other symptoms that burden people living with serious illness -- in short, to help people feel better.
Through discipline, persistence, a fantastic support team and the grace of Almighty God, I walk tall now (at 5 feet) with strength, stamina and -- most importantly -- the exhilaration of knowing that I can still joyously face life head on, whether the wind blows before me or behind me.
When I look back at all the biggest mistakes I've made in my life, I can clearly remember a moment when I consciously overrode what my gut was telli...
Contrary to popular wisdom, what you don't know can sometimes hurt you, and badly. For older adults in particular, this is true when it comes to stroke.
CHICAGO (Associated Press) -- A 21-year-old Chicago man who began college at age 9 and medical school three years later is about to become the younges...
Approximately 5.4 million Americans have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's, and many more are showing symptoms of it. A small number of them, such as Alicia, actually have something else.
WASHINGTON -- The government transparency nonprofit group Maryland Reporter is alleging that rotten politics has played a role in how state alcohol ta...
We have had about a 75-year experiment with employer-sponsored health insurance, but its track record is one of continued decline over the last 30 years.
When will logic, common sense, evidence and fairness take center stage for health policy makers and legislators? The way things are going could well be called legislative malpractice.
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.
MiniDisc was surely the last hurrah of Sony's heroic age. It was a time when Sony was driven by engineering purity rather than sales and marketing commonsense.
This was a truly humbling experience. The BeCause Foundation arranged for me to share a conversation with two amazing men, both of whom I had never met before, and both are brilliant with huge hearts.
What did your great-grandparents do? If you think about it, they were probably important players in helping develop our country, no matter what their...
people need to know how lifesaving it can be when health professionals dare to be honest about the hazards of psychiatric drugs and the value of empathic therapeutic approaches.
"Live to 120 years old by eating as much as you want and drinking lots of red wine!" That's the intriguing finding of a recent study from Harvard researcher David Sinclair and his group.
How could they eat high amounts of bad food and not exercise, yet still become fitter AND live 30 percent longer than the average rat? One word: MITOCHONDRIA -- the source of your energy.
ShoWest opened today in Las Vegas. This is the trade show of the the National Association of Theatre Owners and more than 2,500 people convened today in Las Vegas to see what's new in the industry.
So the health scare mongers accuse the government of what the private insurers are now doing. The anti-change 'protesters' are angry and they're not gonna take it any more. The only problem is that the private insurers have already taken it, and the anti-reformers are angry at the wrong people.