Mar 08 When CPR for the Elderly Becomes Morally Gray The call itself took seven minutes, 16 seconds to unfold and not much longer than that to spark outrage throughout the nation. The scene is now familiar to many: Lorraine Bayless, 87, was barely breathing at Glenwood Gardens… Continue reading
Mar 07 Watch Arkansas Abortion Law Bans Procedures After 12 Weeks of Pregnancy Arkansas Legislature Passes Nation's Strictest Abortion Law… Continue watching
Mar 07 How Quickly Do Germs Spread in the Office? We've all done it. Come to work when we're sick. We know we're not doing our fellow workers any favors by exposing them to whatever we've got, but pressure to get our jobs done almost always trumps common… Continue reading
Mar 05 Watch New Study Shows U.S. Lags Behind Other High-Income Countries in Female Lifespan New Study Shows U.S. Lags Behind Other High-Income Countries in Female Lifespan… Continue watching
Mar 04 Watch Mississippi Doctors See Child-Size Breakthrough in the Global Fight Against AIDS Mississippi Doctors See Child-Size Breakthrough in the Global Fight Against AIDS… Continue watching
Mar 04 Finding a Doctor Who Accepts Medicare EmbedVideo(5881, 482, 304); Endless searching. Repeated rejection. Trips to the emergency room when all else fails. The horror stories are familiar to seniors who can't find a new primary care doctor willing to accept their Medicare coverage. Continue reading
Mar 04 Watch Access to Doctors Shrinks for Some Medicare Patients It's getting harder and harder for some seniors to find a primary care physician. Ray Suarez reports on why the threat of massive cuts to Medicare reimbursement rates has left some doctors so worried that they've decided to stop taking… Continue watching
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