Tag Archives: health care

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

By Brad Broker On Sunday, we celebrate the current national pastime — the Super Bowl.  In addition to dissecting the game, the pools, the fantasy ...

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. ...

By Brad Broker Q: What is the #1 online source of medical information for patients and health care professionals? Epocrates? Mayo Clinic? Facebook? No, no, ...

By Roni Caryn Rabin Hospital charges for labor and delivery vary so widely from one California medical center to another that some facilities charge women ...

By L. Michael Hone Clinical diagnosis of melanoma and other skin cancers is still performed primarily by sight. Since even the most sophisticated eye is ...

Kaiser Health News reports that some medical school administrators and policymakers see three-year programs as a way to produce physicians, particularly primary-care doctors, faster as ...