Opinion

By Alan Lyndon When people hear about physicians and conflicts of interest, they often jump to payouts from drug companies or financial interests in medical ...

By Bill Godshall (Editor’s Note: The Journal of the American Medical Association recently published two articles stating various potential hazards of electronic cigarettes, particularly to youths. ...

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Fox News is sometimes funnier than Comedy Central.  While they try to make coherent arguments, they actually create more and more material for late night ...

By Jeffrey Cohen, WNPR On a recent afternoon at his office in Hartford, Conn., Dr. Doug Gerard examines a patient complaining of joint pain. Gerard, an internist, ...

By Steven Stroll, MD I’ve been around medicine my entire life. I am the son, grandson, nephew, husband, cousin and brother-in-law of doctors. After years ...

By now, you’ve heard about the execution-gone-bad in Oklahoma where inmate Clayton Lockett died of a heart attack forty minutes after his lethal injection began and was abruptly ...

By Bruce A. MacLeod, MD and Allen Nussbaum, MD Electronic cigarettes could be a “gateway” that introduces youth to smoking. That’s what researchers from the Center ...

By Curtis T. Miyamoto, MD I recently met with Chari Cohen, MPH DrPh(c), Director of Public Health, and Kuan-Lung Daniel Chen, MPH, CPH, Program Manager, ...

By Brad Broker New York Times columnist Bill Keller has made himself the news for his recent remarks about the blog and Twitter feed of Lisa Bonchek Adams, who writes ...