Do you need to worry about having a heart attack?

We would like to thank our first contributor to our blog, Cherie Skager, Vice President of Education and Outreach at The Hope Heart Institut...

I'll be back soon

I haven't done a post for three weeks - the longest postless interlude since I started the blog 3 1/2 years ago. It's due to a combi...

Is Paul Krugman Right that Patients are not Consumers?

President Harry Truman only sought advice from one-armed economists. He didn't want any of this "on the one hand/on the other hand...

The Manners Mother Taught Us

Theresa Brown, an oncology nurse in Pittsburgh, didn't connect her column in today's New York Times to Mother's Day. But I did....

The Rasmussen poll, which tends to have a Republican-leaning "house effect," is now showing "support for repeal of [health ...