Ira R. Allen's blog
A new survey finds the Bush-backed consumer-directed health plan scheme can, indeed, cut spending on health care. And scare half the enrollees into wanting to bail out.
Public health demands a high standard of cleanliness, if not nutrition, in dining establishments.
The capacity of people to fool themselves knows no boundary, so on the theory that turkey skin, gravy and pumpkin pie have no calories if eaten on the fourth Thursday of November, consider a new Gallup poll.
In crime families, business and politics, one hand washes the other. In hospital medicine, apparently no hand is washed behind.
One of the rules of scientific journalism is to avoid the word "breakthrough." That doesn't hold at USA Today, where the prospect of "change" in medicine adds up to dollars for the drug and device industries.
Despite the specter of terrorism and despite an economic boom, what most Americans fear is fear itself.
From the folks who brought you ketchup as a vegetable comes another Orwellian twist from Washington.
Hands up and step away from the chocolate -- slowly! "Chocolate offenders" advance science by a morsel.
What better organization to promote the waltz than the American Heart Association.
The straight poop from the United Nation tells us millions of people die from disease that could be prevented by the installation of toilets -- even simple latrines -- for the cost of a bottle of Dasani.
Using the pure reason of cause and effect to persuade people to change unhealthy or risky behaviors doesn't usually work, and two studies reported in Friday's news try to explain why.
Two of the more popular subjects in medical news are red wine and birth control.(No relationship intended!) Both are in the news today, as well.
The first thing most of us reading this page do when we are confronted with a serious question about the health of ourselves or loved ones is turn to the Internet for answers.
Some of us remember with pleasure the smell of burning leaves in autumn. Some remember the breezes flowing through our hair as we rode bikes all summer. In later years there might have been memories of that first cigarette announcing our arrival into the state of "cool."
Of all the reasons to lose weight, perhaps the dumbest one was given global exposure today by a journal not previously known for its medical or behavioral health credentials.
