The United States has a worldwide reputation for litigiousness. And it seems like just about everyone the world over is familiar wi...

Whether we recognize it or not, we’re in a housing affordability crisis.   Over a third of households in the U.S., carry a shelter ...

While women make up more than half of the U.S. population, an imbalance remains between who we are as a nation and who represents us in ...

Maternal mortality can seem like a throwback to the Victorian era, a bygone relic of a time before modern medical technology turned...

A few weeks ago, I saw a young patient who was suffering from an ear infection. It was his fourth visit in eight weeks, as the i...

In July, 2009, the family of Massachusetts teenager Yarushka Rivera went to their local Walgreens to pick up Topomax, an anti-seizure dru...

The New York University Medical School recently stunned the nation by announcing tuition for all current and future medical students w...

In my last column, I wrote about the impending national physician crisis, which appears likely to hit already-underserved Kitsap...

The Association of American Medical Colleges predicts this country will be short 91,000 physicians by 2020 – half of which are nee...

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