Mar 04 Why Is It So Hard To Fix Pay for Doctors Taking Medicare Patients? Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images While physicians have sidestepped drastic Medicare payment cuts for 2013, doctors' groups and lawmakers are gearing up for yet another battle to scrap the formula that forces Congress to consider the "doc fix"… Continue reading
Mar 04 Struck By a Turtle? Crushed By a Merchant Ship? There’s a Code for That Struck by a turtle lately? No? Then surely you've been smacked by a raccoon, chicken ... or at the very least, a nonvenomous lizard. Well, regardless, starting in 2014, your doctor will be prepared when animals, lightning, or even… Continue reading
Mar 03 First Child Cured of HIV The first baby has been cured of HIV, researchers announced Sunday. The case was publicly unveiled at the 2013 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Atlanta. The infant, who is now two and a half years old,… Continue reading
Mar 01 Watch New Documentary Puts Homegrown Issue of Hunger on the Table New Documentary Puts Homegrown Issue of Childhood Hunger on the Table… Continue watching
Mar 01 With 50 Million Hungry in U.S., New Film Demands ‘A Place at the Table’ EmbedVideo(5858, 482, 304); The classroom sometimes gets a little blurry for Rosie, a fifth-grader in Colorado. And when it does -- when she starts picturing her teacher as a banana or her classmates as apples -- Rosie… Continue reading
Feb 28 Watch Documentary Calls for "A Place at the Table" for Hungry New Documentary Calls for "A Place at the Table" for Hungry… Continue watching
Feb 28 The Day Scientists Discovered the ‘Secret of Life’ By Dr. Howard Markel Medical historian Dr. Howard Markel revisits moments that changed the course of modern medicine. The place: The Eagle, a genial pub and favorite luncheon spot for the staff, students and researchers working at the University of Cambridge's old… Continue reading
Feb 25 Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop Leaves Legacy on AIDS, Smoking Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop died on Monday at the age of 96. Photo by AFP/Getty. On Monday afternoon, Dr. Charles Everett Koop, the former surgeon general who delivered straightforward talks on AIDS and smoking, passed away in… Continue reading