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There is an important study in the Archives for Internal Medicine last month, which escalates an ongoing row as to whether patient satisfaction is in any way correlated with positive medical outcomes.
Judge Napolitano: Justice Kennedy’s Questioning of Health Care Bill May Prove to Be a Bad Day for Government
President Obama wasn't always a defender of the individual mandate requirement. On the campaign trail in 2008, Obama opposed a mandate, and used his opposition to differentiate himself from his chief opponent, Hillary Clinton.
According to reports from the courtroom, the four liberal justices seem inclined to uphold the law. But it is still unclear if the Obama administration's legal team will be able to get a fifth vote.
U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli got off to a remarkably bad start during today's landmark Supreme Court arguments, devolving into a coughing attack within the first 25 seconds of his opening remarks.
SCOTUS - questions for Solicitor General Donald Verrilli on Obamacare – the most important case the court is hearing since Roe vs. Wade. Listen below as Justice Kennedy, Justice Scalia and Justice Grinsburg are tearing Verrilli apart.
It’s Our Economy, the organization I co-direct with Margaret Flowers, MD, Single Payer Action and 50 doctors filed an amicus brief in HHS v. Florida
Ron Paul on Monday said that his “big guess” about the Supreme Court’s ruling on the constitutionality of the controversial healthcare reform bill is that it will uphold the law.
President Barack Obama's sweeping healthcare overhaul on Monday went before the U.S. Supreme Court where the nine justices began hearing arguments in a historic test of the law's validity under the U.S. Constitution.
Supreme Court hears arguments on it
In 2005, the British medical journal The Lancet attacked the use of homeopathic treatments saying that doctors should be honest about homeopathy's lack of benefit.
Stem cells derived from a patient's bone marrow can help treat severe heart failure, but the results are even better when they are taken from fat
You’re hiking along a trail with your buddy when a mountain lion darts out from the bushes, leaps onto your friend, and sinks its teeth into his leg.
Common cancer treatments nowadays include not just radiation, surgery, and infusion chemotherapy treatments, but also pills that patients take every day for weeks, months, or even years.
Bob Landorf walked miles during his hospital stay, dragging his IV pole along, too, on a mission to upend disturbing statistics for patients his age.
New scheme called 'Life End' will respond to sick people whose own doctors have refused to help them end their lives at home
Joint implants should always be made of materials like titanium, so they can last the lifetime of the patient ... right?
There's no cure for Ebola. But a group of scientists is exploring whether some drugs already approved to treat cancer might help tame the virus.
When a nerve is injured, it's often hard to get it to regrow fast enough to restore function.
Loss of an extraordinary woman
When we talk about reproductive health in popular culture, as progressives, we mostly talk about the essential invisibility of abortion.
People rightly flipped out across the internet last month over news that the Swedish parliament would not be repealing a barbaric law that forces sterilization on trans people seeking to change their gender on legal documents. While it's despicable t
A new study concluded abortion rates are higher in countries where the procedure is illegal and nearly half of all abortions worldwide are unsafe, with the vast majority in developing countries.
Groundbreaking new research has linked sodium fluoride to cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death worldwide
What if the lenses could look inside of you to diagnose, monitor and even treat disease? Sound far-fetched? Well, it may not be too far away.
Caller: Basically what the document stated was that if you were over 70 and you’d come into an emergency room and you’re on government supported health care, that you’d get “comfort care”.
The Cancer Prevention Coalition (CPC) and Ralph Nader have released a “Dirty Dozen” list of consumer products used in most American homes, and manufactured by giant U.S. corporations.
Here’s a choice: save the last remaining tigers on the planet, or kill them, chop them into pieces, and eat them in the mistaken belief that tiger parts can be used as medicine.
When TEOTWAWKI comes, there isn't going to be a CVS or Walgreen's pharmacy open and stocked for very long afterward. So, what to do when you get a nasty cut, burn or some other infection
Rabins pioneered the Bay Area's burgeoning wild-foods movement when he founded ForageSF in 2009, but city health inspectors, noting the potential hazards of eating products gathered in the wild
