Before I set up the context for this post, I am going to throw this out to you. Think of putting rocks on a scale to achieve…
Transparency, I think that is what pissed me off so much. Or rather the opaqueness. Got me to post again, though, right? Well, don't get used to…
I just finished reading "Tattoos on the Heart" by Gregory Boyle. I came to it partly via Krista Tippett's conversation with him last summer at the Chautauqua…
One of the reasons my blogging has fallen off lately is because I hate sounding like a broken record. Yet here I am again calling this time…
I have been looking up information on endometriosis for a friend of mine, and came upon this from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists: I have been…
Another study this week added to the controversy about early prostate cancer treatment. The press, as usual, stopped at citing the conclusion: Early prostatectomy does not reduce…
Yes, folks, you read that right: The House of Representatives has drafted an appropriations bill that will dissolve the AHRQ and prohibit any funding for patient-centered outcomes…
There is pounding in my temples, my back muscles are in a spasm, and I might even be turning green and busting out of my clothes. What…
This morning I was listening to the Morning Edition on NPR, and heard a story about the tax on medical devices that is written into the healthcare…
Scott Hensley over at the NPR's Shots blog posted a story about the recently approved molecular diagnostic test that can rapidly identify several gram-positive bacteria that cause…
