NPR.org - Uninsured Largely Unaware Of Benefits Coming From Overhaul

Patti thought you would be interested in this story: Uninsured Largely Unaware Of Benefits Coming From Overhaul http://www.npr.org/blogs/hea...

Why the U.S. Isn't Ready for Single Payer Yet

Dr. Samuel Metz , an anesthesiologist in Oregon, has a letter in the August 27 New York Times arguing for a single payer system in the U.S....

"Still Alice" and the Ethics of Dementia

Several friends had urged me to read " Still Alice ," a novel by Lisa Genova about a 50 year old Harvard professor and mother of t...

August 31st Fundraiser for Susan G. Komen 3Day Walk

It's cabaret time for my Susan G. Komen 3Day Walk for the Cure team The Half Racks! Help us eradicate breast cancer while making sure ea...

Steve Schroeder on Why We Can't Contain Medical Care Costs

Steve Schroeder, a friend and medical school classmate I've admired since our first day in anatomy class together, recently published hi...

HIV Virus May Hide in Brain

FRIDAY, Aug. 27 (HealthDay News) -- The brain can be a convenient hiding place for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. That's the finding o...

September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month

ovarian cancer: is the fifth most common cancer in women. It is a cancer that forms in tissues of the ovary. There are three types: 1) thos...

Via Political Wire, I came across this article  in which Charlie Cook appraises the current state of the 2012 presidential election. Though ...

Sex and Gender Medicine - A Lens for Evaluating Sociocultural Determinants of Disease

It used to be good enough to be smart - good in science; good at figuring things out. When you only have penicillin or sulfa, then just maki...

Medical Ethicists as Secular Priests

In Jonathan Moreno's book " Is There an Ethicist in the House? " I came upon these sentences: ...I have been appointed to ad h...

Florida Gun Folly

Florida has forbidden physicians to ask their patients about guns! Here's what the stunningly asinine law says: Privacy of Firearm Owne...

The Female Pattern of Heart Disease

Welcome back! Some day, heart disease will not be the biggest killer of people in the U.S. And someday, despite higher risks in men - simila...

Self-Tracking, Psychiatric Ethics, and the Changing Patient-Doctor Relationship

A recent New York Times article - "A Dashboard for Your Body" - led me to nose around the web to learn more about developments in...

Improving Health Care at Hospitals

Methods for Improving Health Care in the Hospital The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid have required hospitals to start reporting on qualit...

How a Well-Intended FDA Policy on Colchicine is Harming Patients

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. The FDA has reaffirmed the truth of this aphorism with its policy about Colchicine. Here...