FYI: What About Health Care Reform?
I want to call to your attention a series of very interesting and important articles published in the New York Times Science Times Section yesterday (Tuesday, March 30, 2010). The…
Read moreA TV Show about School Food in West Virginia, a New York Times Story on Workplace Efforts to Improve Health, and an Article in the New England Journal of Medicine Article on the Prevelance of Diabetes in China: What do They Have in Common?
I just want to give you a heads-up on 3 very interesting media pieces that address a common theme: why are people in the U.S. (and now elsewhere) so unhealthy…
Read moreA Guest Entry: Benefits of Exercise in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes
With this entry I want to try something new- a guest blogger. I hope you like the article and the idea of having guest articles from time to time. If…
Read moreTo Test Or Not To Test, That Is The Question: A Patient With Enlargement Of The Thyroid?
The Question The other day I got into a discussion with a primary care physician (PCP) about a hypothetical patient. We had been discussing a case history for an upcoming…
Read moreHealth Care Reform: Status Report
As those of you who have been reading my various entries over the past 18 months may have noticed, I have been a bit heavy on the U.S. health care…
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