By Alan Lyndon Lots of news in the past few days about the health benefits of playing video games. That’s right, parents, a little bit ...
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By Brad Broker Much of the East Coast is trapped inside today. A major storm of snow and ice has left over 900,000 people without ...
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By Brad Broker Hope you’re not in a hurry for that doctor’s appointment. It may be a while. A new survey found that the average ...
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By Brad Broker If I ever contracted a rare disease, I wanted to be treated by the medically-omnipotent Dr. Gregory House, Director of Diagnostic Medicine at Princeton-Plainsboro Hospital ...
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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 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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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 ...
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