Opinion

By Pennsylvania Senator Vincent Hughes Throughout my legislative career, I have been involved in efforts to provide access to high quality, reasonably priced health care ...

By Richard Amerling, MD The debate raging over ObamaCare has been carried on mostly by politicians, pundits, policy wonks and economists, with little input from ...

WebMD offers an interesting feature on the doctor/patient relationship.  Brenda Della Casa had been seeing her primary care physician for two years and had brushed ...

  Changes to Medicare will give the Feds control of surgical decisions By SCOTT GOTTLIEB Senate Democrats are touting the American Medical Association’s endorsement of ...

What does the Senate health bill, which is poised to become law, mean for the docs?  Dr. Scott Gottlieb, an internist, resident fellow at the ...

By Congressman Joe Sestak The health care reform measures that I helped passed in the House — the landmark Affordable Health Care for America Act ...

By Cathleen London, MD The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recently released its 2009 update to the 2002 recommendations on breast cancer screening.  Specifically, ...

By Elizabeth Lee Vliet, M.D. I am shocked and appalled at the cataclysmic shift in the guidelines to later age and less frequent mammograms.  This ...

Are more doctors buying electronic medical records than before? Or, has the Stimulus bill only reinvigorated research, creating a growing pool of tire kickers? This ...

By Jean-Pierre Forage, M.D., F.A.C.S. Much political hay has been made over the fact that 45 to 50 million Americans are without health insurance.  Little ...