What all of these ninety-seven odd syndromes have in common is that people who are given these diagnoses probably feel some relief in knowing that their discomfort is "real."
Burton L. Wise | Posted 12.11.2009 | Politics
A similar program to Oregon's could be established nationally, with the priority list determined by the Institute of Medicine, the CDC, or another appropriate agency.
McClatchy | Bobby Caina Calvan | Sacramento Bee | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
SACRAMENTO -- For five desperate minutes, emergency room doctors at UC Davis Medical Center frantically tried to revive Scott Hawkins....
Kathleen Reardon | Posted 11.02.2009 | Living
Steering your own medical care takes self-assessment and self-training. It starts with learning how to communicate with your doctor.
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics
The religious right, the gun-carrying paranoids all have one thing in common: they are taking a libertarian/religious view to an extreme that will unhinge this country.
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
The President's plan seems to be getting nowhere, and we who already have Medicare can just say "The hell with it." But I think we'd better all give it more thought, and somebody ought to think about a solution rather than shout, "No, no, no."
Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics
While health care is in need of radical reform for millions of Americans, minorities and especially blacks have historically suffered disproportionately from poor or non-existent health care.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics
Republicans in Congress have raised the specter of a bloated, "socialized," bureaucrat-run nightmare of a health care system as a means of undermining...
New York Times | Gina Kolata | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics
A patient in Illinois was charged $12,712 for cataract surgery. Medicare pays $675 for the same procedure. In California, a patient was charged $20,12...
Maria Rodale | Posted 08.13.2009 | Living
The problem is that we pay doctors -- thus rewarding them financially -- for doing procedures, not for preventing disease in the first place.
Jim Wallis | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics
With an issue like health, deeply personal but of great public concern, the faith community has a unique and important role to play: to define and raise the moral issues that lay just beneath the policy debate.
Dr. Johnny Benjamin | Posted 07.10.2009 | Living
Every day in the hospital is another opportunity for a complication, infection or human error to strike. Do everything within reason to limit those opportunities.
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 05.14.2009 | Politics
A public health insurance plan option would encourage competition on the basis of cost and quality, not by avoiding the sick and denying care, as is the current practice.
Arthur Fournier | Posted 02.28.2009 | World
Today in Marmont, a small rural community of 12,000 people in Haiti's central plateau, a new maternity hospital is being built through the efforts of Project Medishare.
Joseph A. Violante | Posted 02.14.2009 | Politics
The history of veterans funding is so consistently poor that even when Congress has gotten the funding level right, it has been late. Imagine trying to run a private sector health care system without knowing your budget.
The New York Times | SARAH KERSHAW | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
The federal government has told New York State health officials that chemotherapy, which had been covered for illegal immigrants under a government-fi...
Ellen Langer | Posted 12.09.2009 | Living