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 ...
Read More »Another View: The Pros of Electronic Cigarettes
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. ...
Read More »Medical Cartoon of the Week
Used with permission by Jonny Hawkins, whose 2015 Medical Cartoon a Day calendar is now available at Amazon.com. Cartoons are the property of their respective artists and ...
Read More »During Nutrition Talk, Fox News Hack Says Michelle Obama Is Too Fat (VIDEO)
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 ...
Read More »A Doctor’s Perspective On Obamacare Plans
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, ...
Read More »Why I Became A Primary Care Physician
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 ...
Read More »Should Doctors Participate in the Death Penalty?
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 ...
Read More »Doctors Ask For Ban On E-Cigarettes To Kids
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 ...
Read More »Are Doctors Screening Their Patients for Hepatitis B?
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, ...
Read More »NY Times’ Bill Keller Slams Cancer Patient’s ‘Twitter Therapy;’ Now Everyone Hates Bill Keller
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 ...
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