Health, Fitness and Style
Untangling the Web — Patients, Doctors, and the Internet
This perspective is written by MDs Pamela Hartzband and Jerome Groopman for the New England Journal of Medicine: But many patients have not fared so well. One woman with recently diagnosed lupus told us, "I really don't want to read what's on the Inte… more »
My Family Health Portrait; A Tool From the US Surgeon General
It is private — it does not keep your information. It gives you a health history that you can share with family members or send to your health care practitioner. more »
The CBO's Health Plan Cost Debut and Medicare Benefits Enunciated
It improves Medicare benefits with lower prescription drug costs for those in the ‘donut hole,’ better chronic care, free preventive care, and nearly a decade more of solvency for Medicare. more »
Lifelong Pursuits: Allure
Joan L. Cannon writes: My father's desk would be glittering with snippets of gold foil, spools of brilliantly colored silk, as resplendent as a jeweler's tray with iridescent peacock and pheasant feathers, tiny bits of deer and badger and elk hair, and puffs of down. more »
