Poet and teacher Laurie Lambeth discusses her perspective on the ever-changing normals of life with the constant reminder that "physical ability is tenuous at best."
Let's be clear on Christie's claim about the U.S. health-care system's superlative quality.
Like prohibitions on other goods and services, an abortion ban of the kind national conservatives propose would take a disproportionate toll on those least equipped to adapt.
A Salt Lake City NBC affiliate's refusal to air The New Normal -- a new sitcom about a gay couple in Los Angeles that gets pregnant by a surrogate -- highlights the real-life differences between Utah and California with regard to non-traditional families.
Missed diagnoses in hospital intensive care units may result in as many deaths per year as breast cancer.
Recent research on the dangers of egg consumption is misleading and unnecessarily alarming.
Incentivizing with money is a self-fulfilling prophecy of cynicism. We must promote compassion, courage, and wisdom among our physicians before we "make a sordid business of this high and sacred calling."
Doctor Hamblin's Emporium of Medicinal Wonderments: In an ongoing series, the curious men and women of The Atlantic bombard me with their physiological curiosities.
As the Mayo Clinic moves to offer remote electronic expert consultation for doctors nationwide, they continue to set the standard for health networks expanding and consolidating resources in this precarious time for health care.
The number of abortions in Massachusetts has decreased despite predictions that health-care reform would have the opposite effect. Can the health insurance expansions part of Obamacare do the same nationally?
We've called condoms "skins," "rubber goods," and even "Merry Widows" -- and although it's been legal to talk about contraception since 1938, we'd still rather not.
CDC and the New England Journal of Medicine reported today on small outbreaks of tattoo infections springing from bacteria in the ink.
Almost half of U.S. physicians report at least one symptom of exhaustion or significant dissatisfaction. That has resonant implications across the national healthcare and economic discussions, as well as for patients.
"Romantic reductionist" neuroscientist Christof Koch discusses the scientific side of consciousness, including the notion that all matter is, to varying degrees, sentient.
The developing world stands to bear the health costs and economic burden of increases in tobacco use and tobacco-related death.
A Manhattan gallery exhibit highlights universally humanizing psychology: the trend in photos of inmates, taken by inmates, in front-wall murals of the outside world (painted by inmates).
With cases of H3N2v influenza on the rise, a look at where we stand and the key role of our system of food animal production in strengthening viruses
Time-lapsed mapping of the growth of Walmart across the United States over the last 47 years appears, for better or worse, eerily akin to a skin rash or poxvirus.
In the event that Rep. Todd Akin's comments yesterday might speak to a wider-spread misunderstanding -- that women rarely become pregnant after rape -- some may benefit from them as a learning opportunity
It's heartening to hear we're on the right track once in a while.