Friday, January 11, 2013 - 5:00am
When the FDA says that a drug is approved to treat nearly 20 different diseases, you can assume the agency is right and that a true wonder drug is working miracles in the marketplace or examine the evidence.
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January 11, 2013
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Thursday, January 10, 2013 - 3:19pm
The last 15 years of research on how adverse childhood experiences cause adult onset of chronic disease, mental illness, violence and being a victim of violence is unequivocal. To understand what happened to Adam Lanza, we have to ask difficult questions.
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January 10, 2013
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Thursday, January 10, 2013 - 2:21pm
California’s population of children is shrinking, and that means some big changes ahead for the Golden State. What's happening in your state?
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January 10, 2013
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Thursday, January 10, 2013 - 12:00am
WomensHealthMag.com is on the look out for an associate editor in New York, NY.
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January 10, 2013
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Wednesday, January 9, 2013 - 7:47am
A compelling patient or researcher makes a story engaging; concrete statistics make a story valid. Data, however, aren’t always clear-cut, and experts disagree on interpreting and applying it. Statistics on gun violence and how to reduce it fall prey to the same dichotomy.
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January 09, 2013
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Tuesday, January 8, 2013 - 7:53am
Faced with two mad cow scares this year, both US and Brazil authorities have debuted the concept of "atypical mad cow disease." Spontaneously-erupting mad cow that has no known cause and may be a genetic mutation has seldom if ever been reported before.
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January 08, 2013
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Tuesday, January 8, 2013 - 5:00am
The number of school-based health centers has been growing in California for more than a decade, and the Affordable Care Act has boosted their funding. Some students served by these clinics also enthusiastically support them.
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January 08, 2013
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Monday, January 7, 2013 - 11:00am
Sophia, 44, works up to 40 hours per week at a Mexican restaurant in Gurnee, Ill., making $10 an hour. With every paycheck, she said, $136 goes to payroll taxes, $62 of which goes to Social Security and Medicare. But as an undocumented immigrant, she will never receive those entitlements.
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January 07, 2013
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Monday, January 7, 2013 - 5:00am
When an insurance company decides to deny coverage for a particular drug, it is easy for the pharmaceutical company to suddenly become David fighting Goliath.
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January 07, 2013
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Friday, January 4, 2013 - 5:42am
If you cover health and aren’t writing about the impact the aging population has on a nation’s fiscal, as well as physical, well-being, you could be missing some good stories.
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January 04, 2013
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Friday, January 4, 2013 - 5:00am
Reporters naturally want to focus on newly published research or a new announcement at a conference, but by focusing on one idea, it may present a drug or device as unique when in fact it is just a minor tweak on an old approach or no advancement at all.
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January 04, 2013
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Thursday, January 3, 2013 - 9:45am
The label on the malaria drug, developed by the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in the 1970s after another malaria drug used in Vietnam failed, warns of psychosis, hallucinations, delusions, paranoia, aggression, tremors, confusion, abnormal dreams and suicide. The drug still prescribed to US
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January 03, 2013
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Thursday, January 3, 2013 - 5:00am
In Latino households, where family is a priority and multiple generations live under one roof, children face unique challenges in providing care for their aging relatives.
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January 03, 2013
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013 - 9:34am
FOXNNEWS.com is looking for a health section news editor/writer.
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January 02, 2013
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013 - 12:48am
You'd think with all the traffic they have that Metro would provide some type of announcements about detours, service outages, and the like. Without them, it's a bit like traveling while wearing a blindfold. A solution is available.
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January 02, 2013
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