Cheers to Dr. Oz!

From helping people lose weight in a healthy way, to teaching the world about life-threatening diseases, to poop and neti pots, Dr. Oz has never been dull. Relive the unforgettable »

Traveling for Treatment

(HealthDay News) — David Boucher celebrated his 50th birthday this year by jetting to Bangkok for his first colonoscopy.
There he was seen by a California-educated physician and no shortage of nurses, who verified his identity 15 times before the procedure.
To be sure, Boucher had a secondary motive: He is founder and president of Companion Global [...]

Health-Care Costs Go Up, and Stay Up, for Abused Women

(HealthDay News) — Women who are physically or psychologically abused by their partners spend more each year on health care, even years after the abuse stops, a new report says.
The long-term study of more than 3,300 women in the Pacific Northwest revealed that women in ongoing abusive relationships spent about 42 percent more a year [...]

The Health Benefits of Consumer Confidence

If you have any extra cash at all this holiday season, your instinct may be to buy yourself a tiny treat. But you’ll probably feel best if . . . Read more

2008’s Top 20 Medical Breakthroughs

By Ross Weale
Viable frozen embryos. A pill that could help you keep off weight. A gel to rev your sex drive. It’s clear that 2008 was full of good medical news for women. Health magazine’s medical expert, Dr. Roshini Raj, went on the Today show to talk about the ways in which 2008’s news could [...]

Why Cigarettes Should Cost $10 a Pack

By Scott Mowbray
Istockphoto/HealthAs the U.S. government throws tax money on the banking bonfire, you have to wonder how many billion-dollar notes are left in the Washington ATM machine for health-care reform. If an income-tax hike isn’t in the cards for 95% of Americans, there will surely be a revenue hunt elsewhere.The last time a president [...]

Why Cigarettes Should Cost $10 a Pack

By Scott Mowbray
Istockphoto/HealthAs the U.S. government throws tax money on the banking bonfire, you have to wonder how many billion-dollar notes are left in the Washington ATM machine for health-care reform. If an income-tax hike isn’t in the cards for 95% of Americans, there will surely be a revenue hunt elsewhere.The last time a president [...]

Do Patients Get Better Care When They Look Like Their Doctors?

By Dena Rifkin, MDGetty ImagesI saw a young man from Portugal, a new immigrant to the United States who didn’t speak English, a couple weeks ago in the hospital. He really needed a long-term physician. Like many such patients, he didn’t have access to health insurance here, and he hadn’t seen a doctor for more [...]

Do Patients Get Better Care When They Look Like Their Doctors?

By Dena Rifkin, MDGetty ImagesI saw a young man from Portugal, a new immigrant to the United States who didn’t speak English, a couple weeks ago in the hospital. He really needed a long-term physician. Like many such patients, he didn’t have access to health insurance here, and he hadn’t seen a doctor for more [...]

Avoid non-English characters on English pages

This one is a bug, to be honest. My surname is French, and I prefer to write it out correctly with the accent grave on the first “e”. Every page on my site would then include at least two accented letters, because my name shows up twice in the footer. On some pages my name [...]

Adsense Tips, Layout Optimization Tricks for Higher CTR

Google Adsense is perhaps the easiest way to attract advertisers from across the globe to your blog. Just submit your blog to Google for approval. If Google likes what it sees, it will place contextual ads linking to products likely to appeal to the readers. Each time a reader clicks a link, the advertiser pays [...]

The Soaring Cost of Dental Care Is Nothing to Smile About

Let’s drill down into why it’s so expensive to have a healthy mouthby Amy O’Connor
This is me holding my $1,200 crown (it recently popped out, hence this blog), my husband’s $450 mouth guard, and the retainer I have worn since I was a teenager.
Notice that I am not smiling. We spend far more on dental [...]

The Soaring Cost of Dental Care Is Nothing to Smile About

Let’s drill down into why it’s so expensive to have a healthy mouthby Amy O’Connor
This is me holding my $1,200 crown (it recently popped out, hence this blog), my husband’s $450 mouth guard, and the retainer I have worn since I was a teenager.
Notice that I am not smiling. We spend far more on dental [...]

Very Premature Babies Show Raised Risk for Autism

(HealthDay News) — Two new studies shed additional light on two different aspects of autism: One tried to pinpoint a risk factor for development of the disorder, while the other looked at the financial toll that having an autistic child takes on a family.
Both studies were expected to be published in the April issue of [...]

Very Premature Babies Show Raised Risk for Autism

(HealthDay News) — Two new studies shed additional light on two different aspects of autism: One tried to pinpoint a risk factor for development of the disorder, while the other looked at the financial toll that having an autistic child takes on a family.
Both studies were expected to be published in the April issue of [...]

Very Premature Babies Show Raised Risk for Autism

(HealthDay News) — Two new studies shed additional light on two different aspects of autism: One tried to pinpoint a risk factor for development of the disorder, while the other looked at the financial toll that having an autistic child takes on a family.
Both studies were expected to be published in the April issue of [...]

Very Premature Babies Show Raised Risk for Autism

(HealthDay News) — Two new studies shed additional light on two different aspects of autism: One tried to pinpoint a risk factor for development of the disorder, while the other looked at the financial toll that having an autistic child takes on a family.
Both studies were expected to be published in the April issue of [...]

Will We Soon Be Storing Our Medical History on Facebook-Like Pages?

That’s what some big companies believe. I’m not so sureby Scott Mowbray

Count me skeptical about the Microsoft and Google forays into personal medical information storage. The idea is good: We travel through life throwing off data about our health, which scatters like dust into doctor’s computers, hospital computers, HMO computers, and pharmacy computers. That data [...]

Will We Soon Be Storing Our Medical History on Facebook-Like Pages?

That’s what some big companies believe. I’m not so sureby Scott Mowbray

Count me skeptical about the Microsoft and Google forays into personal medical information storage. The idea is good: We travel through life throwing off data about our health, which scatters like dust into doctor’s computers, hospital computers, HMO computers, and pharmacy computers. That data [...]

Meet the War Doctors Saving Our Soldiers’ Lives

A new documentary film puts a face—and a price—on battlefield medicineby Sally Chew

The original inspiration for the new documentary Fighting for Life was a pre-Iraq War threat in Congress to shut down the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, Md., which has trained one of every four current active-duty military physicians. It’s hard to imagine lawmakers [...]