Tag Archives: physicians

By Brad Broker Physicians have an ethical responsibility to avoid the practice of providing prescription medication to boost mental performance of otherwise healthy kids and ...

By Cheryl Bettigole, MD, MPH As physicians, some of us have the job of rising in the middle of the night to try to reverse ...

By Jeffrey Cain, MD The recent tragedies in Colorado and Connecticut highlight the need for focused attention on the all-too-often unacknowledged public health concern of ...

By Sarah Varney Kaiser Health News If the National Rifle Association’s plan to curb violence is, in part, arming school employees with guns, President Barack Obama ...

By Brad Broker The Institute of Medicine, the health arm of the National Academy of Sciences, will conduct a study on sports-related concussions in youth, from elementary ...

By Patricia A. Costante and William Hyncik, ATC As 2012 comes to an end and physicians are preparing the 2013 budget for the upcoming year, ...

By Jay Hancock Kaiser Health News Did you know the Affordable Care Act stands up for gun rights?  The “Protection of Second Amendment Gun Rights” ...

By Brad Broker While President Obama Sunday evening acknowledged that no law is capable of preventing all violence, he said “that can’t be an excuse ...

By Michelle Andrews  Kaiser Health News Should doctors be able to ask patients or patients’ parents whether they own a gun? What about health insurers, ...

By Shefali S. Kulkarni It’s no secret that reforming the country’s health care system is an important issue in this year’s presidential election. According to a recent ...