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Check, Please: Atul Gawande's The Checklist Manifesto

Kathryn Schulz | Posted 01.04.2010 | Books

Read More: Atul Gawande, Medical Costs, Health, Complications, Book Reviews, Medical Error, Checklists, Checklist-Manifesto, Better, Book, Healthcare Reform, Medicine, Books News

To the usual list of new year's resolutions, most of them having to do with bettering ourselves in one way or another, I invite you to consider adding a new one: let's quit making so many mistakes.

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Doubling Down on Baby M: New Jersey's Ongoing Resistance to Surrogacy

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 01.04.2010 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Women's Rights, Law, Women's Issues, Reproductive Rights, Equal Rights, Men's Rights, Motherhood, Pregnancy, Baby M, California, Liberty, Gay Rights, Surrogate Motherhood, New Jersey, Freedom, Ethics, Contraception, Bioethics, Medicine, Muller v. Oregon, Family, Abortion, Women, Gender Discrimination, Parenting, Libertarian, Sexuality, Gender, Gender Equality, Human Rights, Women's Health, Health, Sex, Michigan, Libertarianism, Politics News

That a woman consented to use her body as a surrogate was irrelevant, because there are some acts to which nobody is permitted to consent. As well-meaning as this approach might have been, its underpinnings are inescapably sexist.

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Mother Nature is My Middleman

Robbie Gennet | Posted 01.04.2010 | Living

Read More: Big Pharma, Wind Power, Pesticides, California, Hemp, America, Biofuels, Afghanistan, Marijuana, Agriculture, Medical Marijuana, Drugs, New York, Canada, Afghanistan War, Government, Pharmaceutical Industry, Nature, Alcohol, Oil, Food, Europe, Tobacco, Medicine, Solar Power, Living News

A friend of mine (who shall go unnamed) recently harvested about a half a pound of quality marijuana from his backyard. He grew it from some seeds he ...

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Let Food Be Thy Medicine: Top 10 Healing Foods Of The Decade

Dr. Patricia Fitzgerald | Posted 12.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Top 10 Healing Foods, Salmon, Honey, Slidehuge, Antioxidants, Slidepoll, Healing, Food Is Medicine, Wellness, Let Food Be Thy Medicine, Blueberries, B Vitamins, Yogurt, Vitamins, Foods, Omega-3, Chocolate, B-6, Healing Foods, Site:www.huffingtonpost.com Patricia Fitzgerald Let Food Thy Med, Food of the Decade, Top 10 Foods, Superfoods, Medicine, Spices, Pomegranate, Broccoli, Hippocrates, Top 10 Healing Foods of the Decade, Let Food Be Thy Medicine Hippocrates, Dr. Patricia Fitzgerald: Let Food Be Thy Medicine: Top 10 Healing Foods of the Decade, Walnuts, Site:www.huffingtonpost.com Patricia Fitzgerald Let Food Thy Medicine, Green Tea, B-12, Super Foods, Michael Pollan, Monounsaturated Fats, Healing Food, Health, Nutrition, Vitamin C, Dr. Patricia Fitzgerald, Living News

The past decade has presented an explosion of clinical research to show specifically what health benefits individual foods can offer, identifying the various nutrients associated with these benefits.

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Tylenol Recall 2009 EXPANDED, All Arthritis Pain Caplets Recalled

Posted 12.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Tylenol Recall 2009, Tylenol Arthritis Pain Caplets, Pills, Tylenol Arthritis, Medicine, Tylenol Recall, Health, Tylenol Arthritis Caplets, Business News

A Tylenol recall on arthritis caplets has just gotten larger, as Johnson & Johnson has expanded the recall to include all such products. A recall l...

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An Interview with Dr. Diane M. Harper, HPV Expert

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 12.29.2009 | Living

My examination of the Gardasil vaccine continues with an in-depth interview of Dr. Diane M. Harper.

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Why You'll Need A Personal Brain Trainer

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 12.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Senior-Living, Nih, Brain-Health, Brain-Games, Parkinsons, Schizophrenia, Drug Development, Neurological, Cognitive-Science, Allstate, Adults, Technology, Medicine, Efficiency, Games, Therapy, Telemedicine, Safer Driving, Neurocognitive, Myelination, Brain-Fitness-Training, Ucsf, Neuroplasticity, Posit-Science, Internet, Brain-Trainers, Brain-Assessments, Psychiatric, Aaa, Working-Memory-Training, Brain-Fitness, Brain-Training-Software, MATRICS. Neurocognitive Assessment, Neurodegenerative, Mental-Health, State-Farm, Innovation, Embedded Assessments, Alzheimers, Public-Libraries, Cochlear-Implant, Institute-of-Medicine, Fda, Brain-Training, Fitness, Memory, Brain-Functioning, Neuropsych, Cogmed, Coaches, Automated, Scalability, Home Health, Brain-Gym, National-Academy-of-Sciences, Seniors, Speed-of-Processing, Keck Center, Novavision, Insurers, Scientific-Learning, Teens, Integrative Neuroscience, Piano Teachers, Neuropsych Assessments, Personal Brain Trainers, Michael-Merzenich, Scil, Nih-Toolbox, Mci, The Balanced Life, Health, Living News

Substantial gains could be achieved by organizing everyday activities that grow neurological abilities and sustain brain health. If the ordinary citizen is to achieve brain fitness, they'll need to work at it.

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Drugs in Our Drinking Water

Scott Dodd | Posted 12.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Rivers, Environmental Regulations, Drugs, Drinking Water, Medicine, Pharmaceuticals, Health, Green News

The Associated Press is reporting this week that federal regulators under President Obama are taking the first steps toward regulating drugs in the na...

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Beyond Fluoride: Pharmaceuticals, Drinking Water and the Public Health

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 12.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rights, Law, Philosophy, Lithium, Green, Violence, Suicide, Prozac, Drugs, Green Living, Peter Kramer, Dentistry, Texas, Politics, Pharmaceutical Industry, Human Rights, Health, Water, Ethics, Environment, Utilitarianism, Japan, Tobacco, Libertarianism, Bioethics, Medicine, Michigan, Healthcare, Cocaine, Politics News

If we are willing to ingest fluoride to prevent tooth decay, surely we can tolerate a trace of lithium to prevent suicides.

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South African Plant Helps With Back Pain

nytimes.com | Anahad O'Connor | Posted 12.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Pain, Back Pain, Health, Alternative Medicine, Wood Spider, Natural Medicine, Devil's Claw, Medicine, Alternative Therapy, Pain Relief, Wellness, Living News

Devil's claw is a plant from South Africa named for the small hooks on its fruit. Known for its anti-inflammatory effects, it has been shown in recent...

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The Truth About Tamiflu

theatlantic.com | Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer | Posted 12.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Bmj, The Atlantic, Pneumonia, Flu Resistance, Health, Swine Flu, Flu, Tamiflu, Health Care, Medicine, H1n1, Wellness, Bronchitus, Living News

This week, the British medical journal BMJ published a multi-part investigation that confirms that the scientific evidence just isn't there to show th...

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The Medical Marijuana Debate Is Focused on the Wrong Thing

Charles Feldman | Posted 12.14.2009 | Los Angeles

Read More: The Medical Board of California, Medical Marijuana, Medical Marijuana Dispensaries, Los Angeles County District Attorney, Medical Marijuana Doctors, Doctors, Medicine, Los Angeles News

The marijuana dispensaries could not exist without the enabling benefit of the estimated 1,500 California doctors, most in LA and the Bay, who offer their "patients" letters of recommendation.

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How Homeopathic Medicines Work: Nanopharmacology At Its Best

Dana Ullman | Posted 12.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Brian Josephson, Homeopathic Remedies, Nobel Prize, Homeopathic, Living News, Nanotechnology, Health, Nano, Medicine, Homeopathy, Wellness, Nanopharmacology, Nanodoses, Health Care, Living News

Precisely how homeopathic medicines work remains a mystery, and yet, nature is replete with mysteries and with numerous striking examples of the power of extremely small doses.

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Senate Deal Lets Health Insurers Rob the Public Purse

Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 12.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Health Care Debate, Health Insurance Industry, Health Insurance, Insurance Companies, Senate, Health, Health Care Reform, Medical Costs, Medicaid, Medicare, Cancer, Medicine, Health Care, Health Insurance Reform, Risk, Politics News

The Senate is about to take on the worst deal in history. And at the end of the day, the only winners are the same companies who got us in this mess in the first place.

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Pilot Study And New Book Prove Yoga's Benefits In Treating Osteoporosis

Loren Fishman, MD | Posted 12.08.2009 | Books

Read More: Yoga, Medicine, Osteoperosis, Yoga for Osteoperosis, Books, Osteoarthritis, Back Pain, Exercize, Books News

As a physician and advocate of integrative medicine, I have shown that Yoga can improve upon or substitute for traditional Western medical treatments for osteoporosis.

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Antipsychotic Medication Use In Children And Adolescents: What's A Parent To Do?

Lloyd I. Sederer, MD | Posted 12.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Mental Disorder, Relationships, Children, Psychological Disorder, Tourette Syndrome, Parenting, Wellness, Lloyd Sederer MD, Bipolar Disorder, Diagnosis, Health, Schizophrenia, Autism, Medication, Medicine, Family, Living News

Antipsychotic medication research asked if there were significant changes in three important physical measures: weight, lipids, and insulin resistance. Their results were disturbing.

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What Health Reform Can Learn From Cleveland Clinic

newsweek.com | Posted 12.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Cleveland Clinic, Smoking, Health Care Reform, Modern Medicine, Hospitals, Obesity, Health Care, Medicine, Cardiology, Living News

A century after Henry Ford began building cars on an assembly line, Cleveland Clinic has brought that technique to medicine, updated to reflect the la...

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The Rom Houben Tragedy And The Case For Active Euthanasia

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Terri Schiavo, Rom Houben, Law, Culture Wars, Hoax, Liberals, Belgium, Civil Rights, James Randi, Euthanasia, Religion, Politics, Human Rights, Conservatives, Dalton Trumbo, Right to Die, Health, Coma, Ethics, Arthur Caplan, Morality, Technology, Jean-Dominique Bauby, Medicine, Bioethics, Torture, Politics News

If one believes that the prevention of suffering may sometimes justify the withdrawal or withholding of care, then the very fact that Houben was conscious for twenty-three years might call more convincingly for such action.

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Take Two Studies And Call Them In The Morning

Rick Horowitz | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Annals of Internal Medicine, American Cancer Society, Cancer Screening, Breast Cancer, Breast Exams, Diagnostic Tests, Mammograms, Health Guidelines, Health and Human Services, Medicine, Health Care, Preventive Services Task Force, Health, Living News

If you've been eating plenty of this and that because we kept proclaiming that this and that are good for you, you might want to scale back a bit.

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Beyond Guantanamo: Torture Thrives in Connecticut

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

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.

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What You Don't Know About Osteoporosis

Joseph Sciabbarrasi, M.D. | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Women, Bones, Osteoporosis, Women's Health, Health, Bone Health, Milk, Medicine, Wellness, Living News

We'll look at one of the most controversial and misunderstood treatments for osteoporosis -- hormone replacement therapy. We'll also answer whether being obese can actually reduce the risk of osteoporosis.

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Abortion Rights Groups Scramble In Stupak Amendment's Wake

AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Abortion, Women's Rights, Congress, Naral, Public Option, Roe v Wade, Nancy Pelosi, Hyde Amendment, Pelosi, Obama, Roe Wade, Choice, Planned Parenthood, House, Senate, Rahm Emanuel, Center for Reproductive Rights, Health Insurance, Stupak Amendment, Health Care Reform, Bart Stupak, Anti-Choice, Medicine, Pro-Choice, House Health Care Bill, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Abortion rights groups, outflanked and outnumbered in the health debate, are scrambling to regain lost ground after the House passe...

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Health Care: Understanding Functional Medicine

Dr. M.J. Wegmann | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Emergency Care, Physicians, Medicine, Health Care, Chronic Disease, Health, Alternative Medicine, Living News

Wellness can be described as a state that combines health and happiness. Thus those factors that contribute to being healthy and happy also will be contributing to being well.

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When Militarism 'Invades' Medicine...Doctatorship Happens

Dana Ullman | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Politics, Homeopathic, Military, Physicians, Military Industrial Complex, Weapons of Mass Destruction, War, Side Effects, Natural Medicine, Militarism, Collateral Damage, Medicine, Homeopathy, Health, Living News

Our medical thinking has become totally militaristic. It is not just happenstance that doctors proudly assert that they seek to attack illness, combat disease, kill infective agents, and create a war on cancer.

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Antibiotics Linked To Birth Defects, Study Says

AP | CARLA K. JOHNSON | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Birth, Antiobiotics, Health, Infection, Birth Defects, New Study, Parenting, Bacteria, Babies, Medicine, Wellness, Bacterial Infection, Living News