What could we do with an extra $2.88 billion of public revenue right now?
By Allegra Huston
Liz Smith | 09/28/2009 12:00 am
People need to be able to buy health care that isn’t just a direct benefit to the big insurance companies
And how the hotel doctor handled it …
Why health care doesn’t work well in Italy …
Julia Reed | 09/16/2009 12:00 am
Plus a drunken shipmate experience while in the Caribbean sums up her experiences with medicine and doctors abroad
Q & A | 07/30/2009 10:00 am
Dana Perry, director of ‘Boy Interrupted,’ shares the story of her 15-year-old son’s life and death and her own steps toward healing through filmmaking
Dr. Jerri Nielsen made headlines in 1999 after she diagnosed herself with breast cancer while stationed at the South Pole
By The Staff at wowOwow.com
But not in obese men, according to research published in the medical journal Lancet Oncology
By The Staff at wowOwow.com
Amid a cluster of school closings, recent swine-flu deaths in the U.S. have sparked more concerns of the H1N1 pandemic
By The Staff at wowOwow.com
Hannah Powell-Auslam, a fifth grader in Southern California, was told in April that she has cancer in her breast
By The Staff at wowOwow.com
A stage-II patient — who will be treating her cancer until February 2010 — gets impatient
By Martha Fairbairn, R.N.
Thomas Culp shot Connie in the face five years ago, leaving her unable
to breath on her own, eat solid foods, smell or leave her home without
fear of scaring young children
By The Staff at wowOwow.com
Connie Culp is the first face-transplant recipient in the United States
By The Staff at wowOwow.com
‘Michael J. Fox: Adventures of an Incurable Optimist’ airs May 7 on
ABC. Here, he speaks to renowned cardiologist Dr. Holly Andersen about
the power of positive thinking, his family, his new book Always Looking Up and more
By Dr. Holly Andersen
The city’s Department of Health has issued an alert for Raccoon
Roundworm, or Baylisascaris procyonis, which can cause nausea, tiredness, and more severe symptoms of coma, blindness,
brain damage and enlarged liver
By The Staff at wowOwow.com
For Osteoporosis Awareness and
Prevention Month, the National Osteoporosis Foundation has a new theme: A Gift from
Mothers to Daughters
By The Staff at wowOwow.com
A judge has ordered the Food and Drug Administration to allow the
morning-after pill to be sold at pharmacies without prescriptions to girls 17 and older
By The Staff at wowOwow.com
Style | 03/31/2009 9:20 am
Researchers report that a new ‘magic bullet’ pill can help prevent heart disease in the healthy
By The Staff at wowOwow.com
The test measures the amount of certain proteins in the spinal cord
By The Staff at wowOwow.com
When Jack Benny, notoriously tight, was confronted by a gunman who said, ‘Your money or your life …’
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