A courageous decision by Larry Merlo, president and CEO of CVS Caremark, will take tobacco off the shelves of one of our country’s largest pharmacy ...
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By Brad Broker Physicians are getting a raise! Congress reached a deal today to replace the long-frustrating SGR with a 0.5 percent pay increase each ...
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By Brad Broker Patients can now get their own test results directly from the lab. No more calls to the doctor’s office, waiting on hold ...
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As it turned out, the Obama/O’Reilly showdown was more competitive than the Super Bowl. President Obama sat down with Bill O’Reilly for a pre-Super Bowl ...
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By Brad Broker In 1985, former Surgeon General of the United States C. Everett Koop hosted his Workshop on Violence and Public Health, where he said ...
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By Kaushik J. Dave, Ph.D. The fastest-growing hospital procedure might surprise you. It is not bariatric surgery, nor does it involve robotic machinery. In fact, ...
Read More »NFL concussions are down; New helmet design curbs brain injuries
By Brad Broker On Sunday, we celebrate the current national pastime — the Super Bowl. In addition to dissecting the game, the pools, the fantasy ...
Read More »Doctors Suggest That We Are Scanning Ourselves To Death
By Alan Lyndon “We are giving ourselves cancer.” That’s according to an article in today’s New York Times written by a radiologist and a cardiologist from ...
Read More »‘Great surgeons’ who bully med students are often bad doctors
By Alan Lyndon If you think that bullying ends after the teen years and that places like medical school and hospitals are immune to such ...
Read More »Teen Goes To YouTube To Tell Doctors: “I Am The Patient And I Need To Be Heard” (VIDEO)
Morgan Gleason was 11 years old when diagnosed with Juvenile Dermatomyositis — a systemic, autoimmune inflammatory muscle disorder affecting just 3 out of every 1 million children. ...
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