03.27.08
Having a large gut in midlife increases the chance of dementia in old age. [continue reading...]

02.28.08
Google on Thursday laid out plans for one of its most anticipated new services, a digital health records system meant to give users more control over their personal healthcare. [continue reading...]

02.25.08
Prescribing anti-depressants to the vast majority of patients is futile, as the drugs have little or no impact at all, according to researchers. [continue reading...]

02.22.08
Picking up an E. coli bug from your pet might lead to a urinary tract infection. [continue reading...]

02.14.08
The doctor-patient relationship is "as intimate as a life partnership," says one professional patient advocate. [continue reading...]

02.10.08
A piece in the L.A. Times is titled ERs fail as the nation’s safety net. (H/t: Mike H.) The article manages to discuss every possible cause for overcrowded emergency rooms except for one. See if you can guess which one that is. [continue reading...]

02.10.08
Insurance companies are selling seniors on private fee-for-service health plans to replace their Medicare because the plans allow patients to see any doctor they want anywhere in the United States. [continue reading...]

01.30.08
The accidental breakthrough came during an experiment originally intended to suppress the obese man's appetite, using the increasingly successful technique of deep-brain stimulation. [continue reading...]

01.17.08
CNN Headline News anchor Glenn Beck describes going to the emergency room in intense pain -- so overwhelming, he wept. [continue reading...]

01.10.08
A drug used for arthritis can reverse the symptoms of Alzheimer's "in minutes". [continue reading...]

01.05.08
In the most recent Census report, the lion's share of the increase in the uninsured occurred in five border states: Arizona, California, Florida, New Mexico and Texas. [continue reading...]

01.08.08
U.S. political realities may mug “mandatory coverage.” [continue reading...]

01.03.08
Uninsured Americans are charged the highest rates for hospital care, according to a recent study. [continue reading...]

01.01.08
A happy heart just might be a healthier one as well, new research suggests. [continue reading...]

01.02.08
Many companies are offering a little extra in your paycheck to help you shed the pounds. [continue reading...]

12.20.07
Camden and Stern did not agree on all points, but they presented one voice in their declaration that "employment-based health benefits are dead." [continue reading...]

12.11.07
Midwestern University announced plans to open a dental clinic on its Glendale campus. [continue reading...]

10.21.07
Presidential candidates are scrambling to come up with plans to improve care, hold down costs and cover the uninsured. [continue reading...]

10.11.07
According to a study by the Employee Benefit Research Institute, nearly 63 percent of all uninsured U.S. workers are either self-employed or working in private-sector firms with fewer than 100 employees. [continue reading...]

10.10.07
Everyone agrees that all children should have access to adequate health care. Ideally, every citizen in the United States should have access to adequate health care. [continue reading...]

10.04.07
Microsoft Corp. launched a Web site Thursday for managing personal health and medical information, jumping into an industry whose digital future is clouded by privacy worries. [continue reading...]

10.01.07
Arizona small businesses now have a new tool in the fight against spiraling health-care costs with the availability of a lower-cost, high-deductible health insurance plan. [continue reading...]

10.01.07
The healthcare problem cannot be fixed by requiring employers to provide healthcare, and any politician who offers such a simple solution is lying. [continue reading...]

09.27.07
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is expanding its national $4 generic prescription drug program by about 10 percent, adding drugs for some new conditions. [continue reading...]

09.11.07
An Erie cancer researcher has found a way to burn salt water, a novel invention that is being touted by one chemist as the "most remarkable" water science discovery in a century. [continue reading...]

09.06.07
It cost her $95,000, but Shona Holmes says she would be blind today if she had not sought diagnosis, then treatment for a rare eye condition in the United States, circumventing months-long wait lists in Ontario. [continue reading...]

09.03.07
Cardiac patients will soon be able to 'grow their own' heart valves and have them transplanted within weeks of seeing a doctor. [continue reading...]

08.20.07
Guadalajara, Mexico's second-biggest city, has become a new "in" place for Americans such as Guerra seeking plastic surgery, fueled by word of mouth and the same cheap prices that have given rise to the growing phenomenon of medical tourism worldwide. [continue reading...]

08.06.07
Blue Cross Blue Shield customers now have a new bank to stash their health-care dollars. The insurer this month rolled out its Blue Healthcare Bank for Arizona customers who participate in a health savings account. [continue reading...]

08.15.07
Could eating grapefruit daily raise a woman's risk of breast cancer? Possibly, researchers from the University of Southern California report in the British Journal of Cancer. [continue reading...]

08.04.07
Women who stay out of the sun are increasing their risk of developing breast cancer, a new study suggests. [continue reading...]

07.27.07
Barrett is pushing the health-care industry to adopt technology to better track people who, because of chronic diseases or age, account for 80 percent of the U.S. spending on health care. [continue reading...]

07.27.07
Two of the most commonly used drugs for diabetes, which were taken by hundreds of thousands of mostly overweight people in the UK last year, are causing widespread heart failure, scientists warn today. [continue reading...]

07.19.07
Health care consumers can now access a federal government database that judges how well Arizona's hospitals treat heart-attack and heart-failure patients. [continue reading...]

07.19.07
By 2015, 75% of Adults Will Be Overweight; 41% Obese. [continue reading...]

07.17.07
Older, cheaper diabetes drugs are as safe and effective as newer ones. [continue reading...]

06.29.07
Communities began adding fluoride to water supplies in the early 1940s after decades of studies into why some Colorado residents were exhibiting a discoloration or "mottling" of the teeth but at the same time very low rates of actual decay. [continue reading...]

06.24.07
A doctor's office visit doesn't rank high on the to-do list of many corporate executives. But an executive's lack of attention to his or her health can cost a company in several ways. [continue reading...]

06.23.07
A revolutionary drug that stops Alzheimer's disease in its tracks could be available within a few years. [continue reading...]

06.21.07
The Democrats running for president are competing over whose health-care plan gets closest to “universal coverage.” The Republican presidential candidates, meanwhile, have been mostly silent. Their inattention to the issue is a mistake. [continue reading...]

06.07.07
Arizona scientists believe they have found a gene that could help better predict a person's risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. [continue reading...]

06.06.07
Research reported this week by three different groups shows that normal skin cells can be reprogrammed to an embryonic state in mice. [continue reading...]

06.04.07
For the first time, doctors say they have found a pill that improves survival among people with liver cancer, a notoriously hard-to-treat disease diagnosed in more than half a million people globally each year. [continue reading...]

06.02.07
A feud over millions of dollars for health care has turned into a test of wills at the state Capitol, with the potential for cutting off money intended for low-income patients and blowing a big hole in the state budget. [continue reading...]

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