Sick? You should try medicine. It can make your achy face, sweatpants and bear head go away. No need to go to the doctor, just self-diagnose from the comfort of your own couch.
Dr. Jon LaPook | Posted 05.28.2009 | Living
Nobody wants to overreact, but nobody wants to be caught unprepared. Responsible members of the media are faced with the difficult task of properly informing without needlessly alarming the public.
Kari Henley | Posted 05.27.2009 | Living
Last week, I opened a discussion about our nation's struggles with health care. My heart went out to the comments from readers, who have life threaten...
Lynn M. Paltrow | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics
The rise in cesarean surgery rates has not been accompanied by overall improvements in maternal or child health and creates risks to pregnant women and babies that do not exist with vaginal births.
Lee Stranahan | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics
Judge Jim Gray is a former prosecutor, member of the Navy JAG Corps and served as a judge for years in famously conservative Orange County. In this exclusive interview, he discusses medical marijuana.
Jay Gordon, MD | Posted 05.20.2009 | Living
The fake press release stated that the AAP would end the ethical problem of receiving money and sponsorships from the pharmaceutical industry.
Sheri Fink | Posted 05.19.2009 | Politics
Perhaps the most chilling aspect of the memos is their intimation that medical professionals conducted a form of research on the detainees, clearly without their consent.
Dr. Jon LaPook | Posted 05.17.2009 | Living
Everybody should be getting routine head-to-toe skin exams. This means looking from head to toe at every millimeter of your body, including where the sun doesn't shine.
Jim Jaffe | Posted 05.15.2009 | Politics
Americans are saving more, which could reduce their dependence on Social Security when they do retire and make proposed reforms less painful.
Dr. Jon LaPook | Posted 05.07.2009 | Living
Because you never know where you'll be -- or what you'll be carrying -- when you head to an ER, I highly suggest that you share your medical synopsis with an "emergency healthcare buddy."
Stephanie Gertler | Posted 05.04.2009 | Living
Lynette is what the doctors call a "thalidomide baby." There were other thalidomide babies on the floor, all around 10 years old, mostly limbless or with limbs that were profoundly deformed.
AP | MARILYNN MARCHIONE | Posted 04.29.2009 | Living
ORLANDO, Fla. — Statin drugs, taken by millions of Americans to lower cholesterol and prevent heart disease, also can cut the risk of developing...
Dr. Dennis Gottfried | Posted 04.18.2009 | Living
American health care is failing, suffering with problems that jeopardize our well-being and that worsen each day. Science, tempered by compassion, once controlled medical decisions--but no longer.
Michael Rugnetta | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics
We no longer have the luxury of debating the profound but ultimately unanswerable questions surrounding the dignity of the embryo. The research is proceeding whether we like it or not.
Ryan Mehl | Posted 04.05.2009 | Politics
The days of cautiously taking care of ourselves will wane as we move medicine, politics and society forward. By embracing stem-cell research, we will see the many troubles of aging and disease disappear.
Julian L. Alssid and Jonathan A. Leviss | Posted 04.03.2009 | Politics
What remains unclear are the exact skills and expertise necessary for this health information technology workforce, a subject regularly debated by experts at all major health IT conferences.
Stu Kreisman | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics
A new national study among 526 primary care physicians revealed that the majority (61%) reported that health care will "get worse" in the next four years, after viewing Obama's speech to Congress.
Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 03.27.2009 | Living
We talk to the CEO of Baycrest, a brain fitness institute, about why Ontario and Baycrest chose to become pioneers in this area, and discuss some of the main opportunities, and challenges.
Anne Dunev | Posted 03.14.2009 | Living
We can be a big influence on each other's health. A warm smile, a greeting, a hug to a dear one, can brighten anyone's life -- and may have more of a therapeutic effect than you realize.
Warren Holstein | Posted 03.14.2009 | Comedy
1. Addendum 2. Another 3. Accident 4. Anomaly 5. Annoying 6. Afterbirth 7. ADHD 8. Appendage 9. Analogue 10. AdvertisingSpace
Times Of London | Brian Deer | Posted 03.11.2009 | Living
THE doctor who sparked the scare over the safety of the MMR vaccine for children changed and misreported results in his research, creating the appeara...
Posted 03.08.2009 | Business
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- FBI agents searched the home of a one-time leading suspect in the 1982 murders of seven people who swallowed tainted Tylenol as pa...
Karen Kisslinger | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics
During the recent pre-inaugural concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Tom Hanks read the last words of Lincoln's Gettysburg address in a way I...
Warren Holstein | Posted 03.07.2009 | Comedy
I mean its ridiculous. A baby momma 14 times over should not be living with her parents in a modest 3-bedroom house in Bellflower, California.
Sarah Haskins | Posted 06.01.2009 | Comedy