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I'm moving off health care for this post.  Sorry to those who object, but sometimes other topics (beyond soccer!) raise issues that I li...

Gary Schwitzer, writing in JAMA Internal Medicine -- in an article that has been moved out in front of the paywall --- freely accessible f...

Many of the risk factors for heart disease are related to lifestyle and environmental factors and are typically labeled uncontrollable (n...

Continuing our series on the CMS Open Payments database, I offer this chart prepared by Walid Gellad, and posted on Twitter at @walidgellad...

"Who will reboot Hadassah?" asks Boaz Tamir, in an article published this weekend.  I'm going to summarize and paraphrase fro...

"How could it happen?" is the question everyone's asking. No, not the guy who walked into the White House past the Secret Serv...

First it was prostate removals, then it was hysterectomies, then it was gall bladder removals, and now (tah dah!), Intutive Surgical offers ...

It's been a long time since I wrote about the extremely close relationship between the University of Illinois Chicago, its surgical facu...

A now for a totally different subject, a little bit of Americana: Many of us with children--and our children--recall Hooper's Store on S...

I just read a remarkable quote from Leslie Jamison, in her book of essays called The Empathy Exams (Garywolf Press, 2014).  Jamison has take...