Business owners who claim that forcing them to provide health insurance that covers contraception violates their religious freedom will get their day in court -- Supreme Court -- next Tuesday when the "Supremes" hear oral arguments on that issue. Kaiser Health News in collaboration with The Daily Beast preview talking points.
An ACA rule could put doctors on the hook for patients who don't pay their insurance premiums. Read MedPage Today's coverage of the AMA's advice to doctors on how to handle such patients.
A New England Journal of Medicine editorial Wednesday called for the Senate to confirm Vivek Murthy, MD as the next surgeon general despite his comments about gun control.
Since laughter is the best medicine, here's your Rx today: Dr. Grumpy relates what not to say to a blind patient.
If anyone has ever told you they felt it in their gut that dark chocolate is good for you, unfortunately, they are sort of right.
WHO says only one-quarter of patients globally with multidrug-resistant TB are diagnosed, but a new initiative is improving the odds.
People are passionate about food, as CNN.com learned from the dozens of responses to a story about the "correct" way to cook quinoa.
A nurse's conviction for encouraging suicides was overturned by the Minnesota Supreme Court Wednesday, ruling unconstitutional parts of a law making it a crime to encourage or advise suicide, Reuters reported.
In case you ever need to remove a live fish from a patient's throat, here's how.
GlaxoSmithKline's MAGE-A3 cancer vaccine disappointed again, this time in a phase III trial for non-small cell lung cancer. Last fall, it fell short as a melanoma treatment.
An op/ed on SGR asks: "Is this anyway to treat America's doctors?" by MedPage Today reader Brian Joondeph, MD.
What's the evidence for evidence-based medicine? asks a blogger at BMJ.
Leana Wen, MD, profiles The Ten Types of ER Patients.
William Heisel looks at what happens after doctors are disciplined by state medical boards.
Who had richer parents, doctors or artists? asks NPR.
The A4 Alzheimer's chemoprevention trial team lays out the plan and rationale in this essay in Science Translational Medicine (sub req'd).
Health reform is literally changing the way medical practices are built.
IBM's Watson will help match glioblastoma patients with optimal treatment as part of a study run by the New York Genome Center.
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