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The Health Care Conversation Few Are Having Sep. 06, 2019
I'm no doctor, but I can recognize a prescription for disaster when I see one. What would you predic... Read More
Here's the Real Deal on 'Medicare for All' Sep. 04, 2019
What do we want our health care system to do? Care for our health! Yours, mine, our families', our c... Read More
Baseball Is Life Sep. 04, 2019
A new study finds that major league baseball players tend to fare better, healthwise, than the gener... Read More
Prescription for Danger: Risky Chinese Meds Sep. 04, 2019
When you pick up your prescription at the pharmacy, it isn't labeled "made in China," but odds are t... Read More
The False Premises of the Ruling Against Johnson & Johnson: Blaming Opioid Makers for 'Opioid Crisis' May Be Emotionally Satisfying, but Reality Is More Complicated Aug. 28, 2019
This week, an Oklahoma judge ruled that Johnson & Johnson should pay $572 million to "abate" a "publ... Read More
Judgment Against Johnson & Johnson Serves Notice to Corporate Pill Pushers Aug. 28, 2019
Compared with the landmark $27.5 billion settlement states made in 1998 with Big Tobacco, Oklahoma's... Read More
Grain of Truth Aug. 28, 2019
With Americans more health-conscious than ever (even if we're more talk than action), there are pres... Read More
The Anti-Vaccination Movement Is Now Claiming Lives Aug. 27, 2019
The recent death of an Israeli flight attendant from measles should serve as a tragic reminder of so... Read More
Picture Causing Worry Aug. 06, 2019
Dear Annie: Recently, I got married after being single and a widow for 23 years. My husband and I ar... Read More
Drug Price Gouging: An American Story Jul. 16, 2019
To be American is a wonderful thing most of the time. There are moments, however, when it is downrig... Read More
Intermittent Fasting Jun. 21, 2019
I have a client wanting to try intermittent fasting (where he has long periods of not eating) as a w... Read More
Brother, Can You Care Me a Dime? Jun. 19, 2019
The costs of caregiving are myriad and diverse. Often, when the topic comes up, it's about the emoti... Read More
Classic Ann Landers Jun. 16, 2019
Editor's Note: Hundreds of Ann Landers' loyal readers have requested that newspapers continue to pub... Read More
What Is Driving the Rise in Mental Health Issues? Jun. 14, 2019
To build a more in-depth understanding of the effects of the constant parade of fragmented, ever-shi... Read More
Teasing's Terrible Twist Jun. 12, 2019
Teens who said they were teased or ridiculed about their weight increased their body mass by 33% eac... Read More
Tri, Tri, Again Jun. 05, 2019
For some years, physicians, engineers and sci-fi geeks have been trying to create a medical device s... Read More
Cancer Alternative Treatments May. 29, 2019
A new study published in JAMA found that one-third of cancer patients have used alternative therapie... Read More
Disruption, Fear and Opportunity in Health Care May. 27, 2019
There was a time when health care technology meant expensive new machines that only hospitals could ... Read More
Disruption, Fear and Opportunity in Health Care May. 23, 2019
There was a time when health care technology meant expensive new machines that only hospitals could ... Read More
The Coming Caregiving Crisis May. 22, 2019
With roughly 8 million middle-class Americans currently over the age of 75, the costs of needed hous... Read More
