While consumer-driven health care aims to increase the transparency, accountability, and quality of U.S. medicine, occasionally this concept goes...
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Our Bacterial Neighbors
While NASA is busy sending rovers to Mars and hurling satellites into the furthest reaches of space, another branch of government is looking inward....
Guns in America
A chronically disturbed or angry young man in close contact with weapons of mass destruction has always been a dangerous combination. It's a...
Is High Blood Pressure Overtreated?
US medicine has long been accused of over-utilizing therapies with dubious clinical benefit -- like imaging tests for back pain. Now add drug...
November is Diabetes Awareness Month
Before you help yourself to that second serving of stuffing, remember that this is Diabetes Awareness Month. And while I admire the American...
Code 99
You're in the Chicago airport, hustling from your Portland flight to your next leg. As you zigzag in between travelers on the concourse, you pass an...