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Soaring Insulin Costs Are a Symptom of Our Bigger Health Care Crisis Feb. 26, 2019
Soaring insulin prices are a genuine emergency in America. Many diabetics, suddenly unable to afford... Read More
College Students Gain Weight! Feb. 25, 2019
TEENS: Are you planning on attending college soon? Are you also concerned about gaining extra pounds... Read More
The Pill Solution to What Ails Us Feb. 22, 2019
Are pills the solution to all that ails us? It is a question that seems to come up often in our mode... Read More
Want to Feel Better? Move More Feb. 22, 2019
It seems so simple, this thought that exercise makes us healthier. But nearly 80 percent of adults d... Read More
The Attention Trap: Why We Suffer in the Social Media Economy Feb. 21, 2019
By now, many people are aware of the fascinating experiment conducted by Microsoft to track and inte... Read More
Car Giving and Taking Away Feb. 20, 2019
At some point, almost everybody becomes too old to drive — safely. But deciding when is often ... Read More
We Know Pain, but What Is It Really? Feb. 15, 2019
According to National Retail Federation estimates, fewer people celebrated Valentine's Day this year... Read More
Extra Credit Feb. 13, 2019
Researchers at Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands wanted to better understand the p... Read More
Short Takes on Judges Who Talk First, Think Later Feb. 11, 2019
Red-Faced Blackface Gucci has pulled from shelves its "blackface sweater," which was pretty much exa... Read More
Medicine Goes to the Dogs, Precisely Feb. 06, 2019
Precision or personalized medicine is the mantra these days. It's the idea that medical science can ... Read More
Nothing to Sneeze At Jan. 30, 2019
Millions of people think they have a food allergy, and millions of people actually do — but ma... Read More
Time to Reverse the Odds of Preventable Death Jan. 25, 2019
For the first time since records have been kept on such things, the odds of someone accidentally dyi... Read More
Vitamin D and Diabetes Jan. 25, 2019
Vitamin D may play a significant role in helping people with prediabetes not develop the disease. In... Read More
Our Devices Getting Creepier, Nosier and More Invasive Jan. 16, 2019
Electronic gadgets are now part of all of our lives — from the handheld devices we carry and c... Read More
Illiteracy in the Old Jan. 16, 2019
Roughly 90 percent of Americans age 65 and older use prescription drugs, with an average 20 prescrip... Read More
Signals From Outer Space Jan. 15, 2019
We're taking a break from the increasingly ridiculous game of chicken playing out in Washington and ... Read More
Poor Response Times Jan. 09, 2019
A national study comparing ambulance response times for cardiac arrest calls found that patients who... Read More
At the Edge of Space, Photos of a Snowman Jan. 08, 2019
Let's pause from the chaos of the U.S. federal government — with its breakdowns and shutdowns ... Read More
My New Year's Gift to Conservatives AND Liberals Jan. 06, 2019
Happy New Year. In my next column, I'll get back to the business of debating politics. Today's colum... Read More
