The Mylan EpiPen debacle may have inadvertently weakened the grip Big Pharma on U.S. lawmakers.   Last week, a bill proposed by Senator...

This is a call to action for all 860,000 physicians in the United States of America.  Can you remember a time when practicing physicians...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) EHR Incentive Program—also known as Meaningful Use (MU)—initially provided inc...

Thirteen years ago, I received a call from the mother of a college freshman who was concerned because her son had been diagnosed with mo...

Robert Kennedy, Jr. is an activist, author, and attorney specializing in environmental law . He is the son of Robert "Bobby" ...

Mumps is a contagious disease caused by a virus. It starts with a few days of fever, headache, muscle aches, tiredness, and loss of appe...

U.S. life expectancy declined in 2015 for the first time in more than two decades, according to a National Center for Health Statistic...

Recently, President-Elect Trump selected Rep. Tom Price, MD to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.   Suffice it to say,...

It is about time I cover a well-known parental nuisance known as head lice.   This is one of those time-honored childhood rites of passa...

My last story about a patient ended in sadness, so I am sharing one with a more uplifting outcome this week.   Two months into my priva...