Healthcare reform is a hot topic these days and everybody has an opinion.  It seems that no two people have the same opinions, though, which makes a wildly complex issue even more so.  And it’s a quite frustrating issue, too.

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That’s the question 16-year-old Brooke Greenberg’s father asks.  Brooke has defied the aging process in a way so unique even medical experts are baffled.

The latest issue of the premier British medical journal, Lancet, carries a report from the University of Toronto describing the alarming increase in alcohol-related illness and death in recent years.  The report describes the global burden as large enough to…

Most of us will never become doctors but most of us do become patients at one time or another.  Dr. Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald was both patient and doctor in a heroic surgery she performed on herself while stationed in Antarctica…

Investors are flocking to buy shares of biopharmaceutical company, Medarex, Inc. (MEDX), after an announcement from the Mayo Clinic revealed a new drug, manufactured by Medarex, has helped cure two men of prostate cancer tumors that were once too large…

GPS specialist, GTX Corp., and footwear manufacturer, Aetrex, have teamed up to develop a shoe with tiny embedded GPS tracking devices that will make keeping up with Alzheimer’s disease patients much easier, bringing safety to the patient and peace of…

Pharmaceutical companies around the world are hard at work to develop a vaccine that minimizes or eliminates a person’s chance of getting the H1N1 swine flu now sweeping the globe in pandemic proportion.  For some of these drug companies, the…

The consulting firm, PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC), has released a report that projects a 9% rise in healthcare costs employers can expect to pay in 2010.  The report also projects employers will pass some of that cost along to its insured employees,…

In a rare move, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has filed criminal charges against a manufacturer of medical devices and four of its top executives for improper promotion of a cement-like bone filler, including encouraging surgeons to use…

Margaret Hamburg, MD, chief of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has agreed to review data on bisphenol A (BPA), a common ingredient in the plastic bottles used for baby formulas, water and other popular beverages, as well as…

“Unless you’re Warren Buffett, your family is just one serious illness away from bankruptcy,” said Dr. David Himmelstein, associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.  He described the situation as “frightening” in a news release issued by the Physicians…

Schools all across the United States are on the verge of closing but, this time, it’s for the summer holidays and not the swine flu.  That doesn’t mean swine flu is no longer cause for alarm, though.  The latest news…

Philippe Padieu, 53, was convicted on Wednesday of six counts of aggravated assault after knowingly infecting six women with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS.  The Collin County, Texas, jury is currently in the process of deliberating his…

Empty American pockets don’t contain the money needed to buy prescription drugs as lavishly as in recent years, a cold and hard fact that meant prescription drug sales slowed to a crawl in 2008.  The paltry 1.3% increase over 2007’s…