Mixed Message Award

Ready to scratch your head in bafflement? Here is a beautiful, well-designed, thorough study with every criteria you could possibly want in order to get a clear answer. What’s more, this study looked at a pressing, serious, common issue that is near to all our hearts (so to speak) – does exercise and eating well […]

How Low Can You Go?

Diabetes treatment is becoming more, not less, controversial. Here is another in a series of recent articles trying to answer the question – how low should you go in trying to get glucose levels as close to normal as possible? In other words, the diabetes limbo game. In our first study, the glucose measurement used […]

DIY Abortion

U.S. News and World Report’s Women’s Health writer has done the almost-impossible – she wrote a concise, informed, dispassionate article about the latest developement in abortion access – the Do-It-Yourself Abortion (pills only, thankfully) available online for women who live in countries where abortion is outlawed. Check it out for some interesting, excellent healthcare coverage […]

Selling Out

I once talked to a patient about how he spends his days – specifically how much of his day he devoted to his health (exercise, meds, hygiene, etc.), all in an effort to get him to feel more committed to changing behaviors that were hurting him. I said, “because, in the end, all any of […]

Grand Rounds – the Tabloid Edition

This week’s Grand Rounds is up! In classic, screaming headline format, the latest and best of the medical blogosphere awaits your perusal over at Unprotected Text. I especially enjoyed Dr. John Crippen’s take on the latest U.K. attempt to rate doctors (anonymously) on-line. Join the fray and Read All About It.

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Wonderful, Impartial Advice

Run (don’t walk) your fingers over to click on this link to a great article by Jane Gross of the New York Times. In it, she spells out four major steps she wishes she’d done differently when her mother was failing at home. Today more and more Americans are the sandwich generation, and, like […]