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By Lori Heim, MD The American Academy of Family Physicians strongly opposes the Senate amendment introduced by Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa. This amendment would postpone ...

Back in 1993, a controversial study found that college students upped their IQ by 10 points after listening to Mozart.  More specifically, “spatial-temporal abilities are ...

ABINGTON, PA (December 10, 2009)–John H. Durham, chairman, Board of Trustees of Abington Health and Abington Memorial Hospital, announces that, after a national search, 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 ...

Coffee consumption and risk of lethal and advanced prostate cancer. Kathryn M. Wilson1, Julie L. Kasperzyk1, Jennifer R. Stark1, Michael N. Pollak2, Meir J. Sampfer3, Edward Giovannucci1, ...

Patients no longer need to seek advice from their doctors regarding health maintenance and prevention; all they have to do is pick up a copy ...

By Charles E. Kutner Since the declaration of an H1N1 influenza pandemic in June 2009, virtually all countries are now reporting cases. Speaking at a ...

By Jonathan L. Fox, M.D., MBA Can America’s great health care debate be resolved by promoting transparency and fairness for all stakeholders?  Perhaps, but for ...

While Congress is in the process of further complicating the practice of medicine, the state of New Jersey has decided to blame the docs in ...

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, ...