Medicine

Sustainable Health Care Reform

Ezekiel Emanuel | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Zeke Emanuel, Health, Health Insurance, Guaranteed Healthcare Access Plan, Medicine, Healthcare, Politics News
Ezekiel Emanuel

The Guaranteed Healthcare Access Plan proposes to repair the health care system by giving all Americans a voucher to select a standard benefits package offered by insurance company.

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Genes at the Crossroads

Deepak Chopra | Posted 07.19.2008 | Living

Read More: Genetics, Genes, Biological Sciences, Science, Medicine, Human Genome, Genetic Sequencing, Living News
Deepak Chopra

Human behavior isn't complex the way a game of chess is, or the way the wiring is in a computer, for example. Human traits cannot be ascribed to one gene or even a large group.

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Scientists Clone Cancer-Sniffing Dog: Pets Are Next

Huffington Post | Posted 06.16.2008 | Home

Read More: Cloned Pets, South Korea, Science, Biotech, Medicine, Cloning, Cloned Dogs, Pets, Research, South Korean Cloned Dog, Cancer Sniffing Dog, Home News

In South Korea, scientists have been cloning animals with desirable traits and genetic alterations. Last year, researchers cloned cats that glow under...

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Let's Get Serious About Promoting Breastfeeding

Melissa Bartick | Posted 05.21.2008 | Living

Read More: Breastfeeding, Medicine, Health, Living News
Melissa Bartick

Breastfeeding saves lives and money. Yet most women do not even meet their own breastfeeding goals, not to mention those set by the government.

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The Vitamins are Coming! The Vitamins are Coming!

Doug Bremner | Posted 05.19.2008 | Living

Read More: Drugs, Heart Disease, Vitamins, Medicine, Health, Living News
Doug Bremner

There is now a large body of research, including studies with tens of thousands of patients, that shows that vitamins do not prevent heart disease or lengthen your life.

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An Update On Pine Straw

Doug Bremner | Posted 05.13.2008 | Living

Read More: Chiggers, Red States, Drugs, Pine Straw, Bugs, Medicine, Pharmaceuticals, Living News
Doug Bremner

I blogged a couple of weeks ago about pine straw and the division in the state of Georgia. Anyway I got some interesting feedback from our South Georgia/North Florida contingent about the topic of pine straw.

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Does America Have a Prescription Drug Problem?

Doug Bremner | Posted 05.06.2008 | Living

Read More: Drugs, Pharmacology, Medications, Medicine, Vioxx, Fda, America, Living News
Doug Bremner

Half of all Americans take prescription medications. Eighty one percent take some type of pill. 100,000 die every year from a prescription med that they either didn't need or that was not properly prescribed. What is going on here?

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Is it Good for You? Ask the Crowds

Trisha Gura | Posted 03.13.2008 | Living

Read More: Internet, Chewing and Spitting, Health Advice on the Internet, Health, Crowdsourcing, Eating Disorders, Chewing, Spitting, Medicine, Living News
Trisha Gura

Is it a smart idea to trust the masses when dealing with your health? How effective is crowdsourcing at increasing our medical knowledge, especially when the medical studies are lacking?

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Just Work: An Open Letter to CNA/NNOC Executive Director Rose Ann DeMoro

Michaela Silver | Posted 03.12.2008 | Living

Read More: Just Work, Nursing, Medicine, Nurses, Living News
Michaela Silver

This week, healthcare workers in Ohio saw their dreams of forming a union derailed after the California Nurses Association bombarded workers with wildly false and misleading leaflets.

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The Clinton Health Care Fallacy

Paul Jenkins | Posted 02.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Switzerland, Massachusetts, Canada, Capitalism, 2008 Election, Democrats, Japan, Barack Obama, France, Singapore, Rudy Giuliani, Great Britain, Elizabeth Edwards, John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, Doctors, Republicans, Socialism, Cuba, Health Care, Medicine, Marxism, Politics News
Paul Jenkins

Clinton isn't really for universal health care, or she would be advocating a socialized system not unlike Canada's, Great Britain's, or France's: free and accessible medical care.

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Overdose and Heath Ledger, Part III: Shame About Addiction Should Not Obscure Truth About How Drugs Kill

Maia Szalavitz | Posted 02.07.2008 | Living

Read More: Addiction, Opioids, Heath Ledger Death, Overdose, Heath Ledger Pills, Heath Ledger Dies, Drug Addiction, Heath LEdger Overdose, Heath Ledger Died, Heath LEdger Dead, Doctors, Drugs, Heath Ledger, Medicine, Living News
Maia Szalavitz

It's conceivable that Ledger had an incompetent doctor, but the more parsimonious explanation, given his history of recreational drug use, is that he was not following doctor's orders at all.

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Wake Up and Smell the Sugar Pill -- or Don't and Let It Work!

Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 01.15.2008 | Living

Read More: Prescription Drugs, Medication, Benadryl, Medicine, Sleep Disorder, Placebo Effect, Living News
Dr. Michael J. Breus

Here's a little secret that millions probably don't realize: Benadryl works by virtue of its placebo effect. That's right: it's all in your head so to speak.

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Seven Medical Myths Even Doctors Believe

Fox News | Posted 12.24.2007 | Living

Read More: Doctors, Medical Myths, Medicine, Seven Medical Myths, Living News

Reading in dim light won't damage your eyes, you don't need eight glasses of water a day to stay healthy and shaving your legs won't make the hair gr...

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Why Can't Docs Be More Like Dogs?

Peggy Drexler | Posted 12.09.2007 | Living

Read More: Doctors, Service Dogs, Diabetes, Medicine, Dogs, Living News
Peggy Drexler

The difference between service dogs and doctors -- besides medical school, internships, residencies, proud parents and opposable thumbs -- is total and absolute concentration on the patient.

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From Doulas to Doctors, Women Are Still Dismissed

Joyce McFadden | Posted 12.04.2007 | Living

Read More: Pregnancy, Communication, Doctors, Medicine, Pregnant, Giving Birth, Living News
Joyce McFadden

Three of my cases this year have focused on trauma created by the failure of doctors to listen to, and communicate with, women in situations of fear and distress.

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The Future of the Body (Part 3)

Deepak Chopra | Posted 11.30.2007 | Living

Read More: Complementary Medicine, Mind Body Medicine, Mind-Body Connection, Homeopathic Remedies, Medicine, Mindfulness, Spirituality, Alternative Medicine, Living News
Deepak Chopra

The brilliant success of mainstream medicine in many areas has led to an attitude of "I'll do what I want and let them fix it later."

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Medicine for the Body (Politic)

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 11.21.2007 | Living

Read More: Healing, Health, Body Politic, Pioneers of Integrative Medicine, Body Image, Medicine, Wellness, Living News
Alison Rose Levy

What is the calling of a physician in today's world? What must integrative medicine address to care for peoples' health?

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Panel Says Children Under 6 Should Not Get Cold Medicines

Washington Post | Rob Stein | Posted 10.19.2007 | Home

Read More: Drugs, Cold Medicines, Medicine, Fda, Home News

A special panel of federal advisers voted overwhelmingly today that popular cough and cold medications should not be used in children younger than age...

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Release 0.9: Health2.1 -- Afterthoughts on the Wonderful Health 2.0 Conference

Esther Dyson | Posted 09.23.2007 | Business

Read More: Health Policy, Health 2.0, Medicine, Health Care, Business News
Esther Dyson

Companies are empowering consumers (or patients) giving them the tools to talk to one another, to question their doctors, to monitor their own conditions.

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