America is closer to meaningful health care reform than at any time in its history. As we have all witnessed, finding a way to both provide every American access to affordable health care while seeking to control health care costs has not been easy.
Her bedside manner is comforting, the questions to the point.
The recent death of former Miss Argentina and model Solange Magnano is raising a lot of questions about the risks of cosmetic surgery. But even non-surgical beauty procedures can carry with them serious risks -- especially if the doctor performing them isn't a specialist.
Medicare has become a scary word to the doctors at the largest private group practice in Kansas City, Mo.
Some 5,000 patients suddenly found themselves without an ob/gyn last November when Dr. Tara Wah closed her practice in Tallahassee, Fla.
Parents who bring their kids to Dr. G. Andrew McIntosh for the chicken pox vaccine are out of luck.
Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities do not consistently offer the level of services and infrastructure necessary to properly treat the growing number of female veterans, a government investigation concludes.
Health policy experts agree that any reform in our health care system must include a well-educated, caring primary care doctor who is able to manage the health of his or her patients with an eye to using resources optimally to keep costs down.
When President Obama recently cited the number of Americans without health insurance, he declared that, "We are not a nation that accepts nearly 46 million uninsured men, women, and children."
Like a lot of their patients, doctors are sick of long waits in the waiting room and dealing with insurance companies.
America is closer to meaningful health care reform than at any time in its history. As we have all witnessed, finding a way to both provide every American access to affordable health care while seeking to control health care costs has not been easy.
Her bedside manner is comforting, the questions to the point.
The recent death of former Miss Argentina and model Solange Magnano is raising a lot of questions about the risks of cosmetic surgery. But even non-surgical beauty procedures can carry with them serious risks -- especially if the doctor performing them isn't a specialist.
Medicare has become a scary word to the doctors at the largest private group practice in Kansas City, Mo.
Some 5,000 patients suddenly found themselves without an ob/gyn last November when Dr. Tara Wah closed her practice in Tallahassee, Fla.
Parents who bring their kids to Dr. G. Andrew McIntosh for the chicken pox vaccine are out of luck.
Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities do not consistently offer the level of services and infrastructure necessary to properly treat the growing number of female veterans, a government investigation concludes.
Health policy experts agree that any reform in our health care system must include a well-educated, caring primary care doctor who is able to manage the health of his or her patients with an eye to using resources optimally to keep costs down.
When President Obama recently cited the number of Americans without health insurance, he declared that, "We are not a nation that accepts nearly 46 million uninsured men, women, and children."
Like a lot of their patients, doctors are sick of long waits in the waiting room and dealing with insurance companies.
Treating flu-stricken children with anti-viral medication including Tamiflu and Relenza could do more harm than good, a new report has warned.
At the reception desk of Barrington Family Medicine is a large vase of flowers, and that's pretty much it. There's no secretary, no nurse, no office manager and no staff.
It's time for your 2015 annual physical.
Neither of Dr. Arthur Kellerman's parents wanted to die in a hospital. His father had metastatic cancer and his mother had had multiple strokes, and Kellerman wanted to respect their wishes about the ends of their lives.
Luis Manriquez and Katherine Glass share a common -- and increasingly rare -- ambition: They both want to become family doctors.
President Obama announced Monday his choice for surgeon general -- Dr. Regina Benjamin, a 52-year-old family practice doctor who has spent most of her career tending to the needs of poor patients in a Gulf Coast clinic in Alabama.
My husband's bipolar disorder was diagnosed several years ago. He has tried several medications and the side effects have far outweighed any benefits. Now he refuses to see a doctor about it because he thinks it's hopeless. Not to mention we have moved and discovered that there are few psychiatrists in the area, and the ones who will take him have a six-month waiting list. Our primary care doctor won't treat him for the bipolar (he asked). It is terrible to see him suffer from this disease without any relief in sight. Any suggestions?
Clayton Christensen, Jason Hwang and Vineeta Vijayaraghavan are right about one thing in their CNN commentary titled "We don't need more doctors." America's health care system is broken. It requires significant reform if patients are to have access to convenient, affordable and -- most importantly -- high-quality care that results in good outcomes.
Vowing not to "continue down the same dangerous road" of rising health care costs, President Obama announced on Monday a coalition for reform that included some of health care's most powerful stakeholders.
Sherry Pierce, who works at a fast food restaurant that doesn't offer health insurance, needs a dentist to look at three broken teeth that may be abscessed.
Americans, frustrated by endless waits at the doctor's office, are sidestepping their family physician and taking their rashes, strep throat and pink eye to stores such as Wal-Mart and Walgreens instead.
Up to 15 percent of the U.S. population have chronic pain, and as many as five percent have pain so persistent that they need heavy-hitting painkillers, known as opioids, just to get through the day.
Ordinarily, walking on a treadmill is no big deal for Carol Elam -- except when she's dressed in a hospital gown and attached to a heart monitor.
Everyone's heard about the road building, the tax cuts, the education money. But in New York City, the stimulus plan is giving one community more doctors, more nurses, and greater access to healthcare. And they're getting it in just a couple weeks.
Nursing is supposed to be a calming, tranquil time for a newborn, but when Deb Kruse-Field put her son, Luke Field, to her breast, instead of cuddling up and eating, he arched his back and screamed.
Did you wake up with pinkeye? Or maybe a painful sore throat or a nasty rash? You want relief and you want it now. Well, good luck getting it.
Nearly half the respondents in a survey of U.S. primary care physicians said that they would seriously consider getting out of the medical business within the next three years if they had an alternative.
In August, just days before her daughter was to start her sophomore year of college, Dr. Lucy Sauer faced a troubling choice: Should her daughter have a device surgically implanted in her chest to control her heart rhythm?
In a Nairobi slum, more than one in four children under 5 will die, but in a wealthier part of the Kenyan capital, the mortality rate is one in almost 67, according to a World Health Organization report released Tuesday.
Heart patients should be regularly screened for signs of depression, the American Heart Association recommended Monday
Only 2% of graduating medical students say they plan to work in primary care internal medicine, raising worries about a looming shortage of the first-stop doctors who used to be the backbone of the American medical system
Good chronic pain treatment can be hard to find. A chronic pain patient has every right to believe that his or her doctor will listen sympathetically and prescribe the appropriate treatment, but that is not always the reality.
A South Carolina program aimed at cutting drug costs by giving doctors unbiased data is even winning over conservatives
An estimated one percent of adults have active epilepsy, and many of them are getting insufficient treatment, according to a 19-state survey released Thursday.
Sexually dysfunctional women in the United States are, well, mostly out of luck.
Democratic presidential front-runner Sen. Barack Obama is in excellent health, according to a statement from his doctor, released by the campaign.
More and more doctors, fed up with overpacked schedules and restrictive insurance company rules, are turning their practices into full-service, concierge affairs
Dr. Adam Dimitrov doesn't play favorites with patients. But he does have a few favorite patients -- ones who make it easy for him to do his job well.
Amgen just can't get a break these days.
When teacher Karen Myhre fell to the floor after taking attendance one morning, her third-graders knew exactly what to do: Ring the bell to alert the school office, and run to get the school nurse.
Do you take care of someone in your family with a chronic medical illness or dementia? Have you felt depression, anger or guilt? Has your health deteriorated since taking on the responsibility of caregiving? If your answer is yes to any one of these, you may be suffering from caregiver stress.
Although she loved the memories they made on vacations together, Sandra Thai regularly threw out a good number of the snapshots of her husband, Dinh.
For a company that sells flame-resistant apparel to oil companies, Vetco International was having a tough time putting out its own fires.
Diabetics are holding their breath, and that may not be good news for the Pfizer, the world's biggest drugmaker.
When Michael Holton and Thomas Kintanar decided to start a medical practice in Churubusco, Ind., the two doctors, both devout Christians, say they heard a call from God. Holton, 40, was an exhauste...
LH: Lorraine Hahn GP: Grace Park
Can Prozac make you want to die? The idea seems strange, given that the drug and similar antidepressants are supposed to do just the opposite. Yet that is what Kimberly Witczak believes happened to...
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Georgia-Pacific Corp., the maker of Brawny paper towels and Dixie Cups, Sunday said it agreed to be bought by Koch Industries, Inc. for $13.2 billion.
Chiron, one of the lead manufacturers of flu shots, said the worst of its production problems are resolved, but family doctors are fuming that they're not getting enough flu shots now.
Streams of evacuees are stuck again in a familiar evacuation limbo. While out of harm's way, the return to normalcy is nowhere in sight.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's proposed moratorium on direct-to-consumer advertising could cost the industry as much as $10 billion if it ever comes to fruition, an analyst said.
Dr. J. Edward Hill is a week away from being inaugurated as the 160th president of the American Medical Association, which is no small accomplishment for a man who says he became a doctor because he wanted a steady job.
A family doctor testified Wednesday that a teenager was taking a starter dose of the antidepressant Zoloft when the boy shot his grandparents to death.
Is it possible that one remedy for the ailing health-care system can be found in a Target store in Minneapolis? To see for yourself, head down the main aisle, past greeting cards and gift wrap, tow...
CNN is projecting that former Rep. Tom Coburn will win the Senate seat vacated by Republican Don Nickles in Oklahoma.
It is a common scenario: you are on medication but you forget to take it -- or worse, you cannot remember whether you took the pill you were due to take an hour ago.
Hurricane Frances is set to make landfall in Florida tomorrow. If you were lucky enough to escape the wrath of Charley, you may not be as fortunate this time around.
A chilling terror warning put key financial institutions in New York, New Jersey and Washington on alert this week.
At first glance, Dr. Bernard Kaminetsky seemed to be living his dream. Since childhood he'd wanted to be a family doctor, and he'd pursued his ambition diligently. Nearly 20 years of hard work had ...
Harold Shipman was the silent suburban killer, targeting elderly women with names like Norah, Winifred, and Irene, and killing them behind the lace curtains of their own homes.
You're headed for Shanghai to tour some factories or to Tanzania for a weeklong safari. Or perhaps your son or daughter is spending a semester in Madras or spring break in Belize. You check with yo...
I started having vague concerns about managed care a few years ago when my new doctor, selected from a thick roster approved by a managed-care company with which my employer has a contract, began g...
The special report beginning on page 68 offers smart investing moves for the next 12 months. But if I had to leave my money untouched for 10 years or more, I know what I'd buy: natural-resources sh...
Every seasoned investor understands the wisdom of diversification. Spread your money among a variety of assets that react differently to economic stimuli, history has shown, and your long-term retu...
Once, you could retire with a garden hoe or a stack of novels and tell your ex-employer and Social Security where to mail your checks. Not anymore. Personal finance has gotten so complicated that n...
IT'S NOT EVERY DAY THAT A GROUP OF DOCtors says "Take this job and shove it" to a managed-care plan. So MONEY decided to investigate after we learned that 50 of 100 Tucson-area physicians had done ...
Mark Holowesko appears to be the very model of a modern global money manager. $ He is disarmingly young (34), lives in an offshore tax haven (the Bahamas) and drives a big BMW. He was groomed for t...
THE MARCH of science has produced this arresting tidbit: Though most of us are in a blah or foul mood three days out of ten, an annoying 0.5% of the population is in a good mood all the time. And j...
POLICYMAKERS have long argued that medicine is a market unto itself, governed by laws as strange as those of Lewis Carroll's Wonderland or Jonathan Swift's Lilliput. In fact, the forces driving up ...
HEALTH maintenance organizations take a startlingly sensible approach to cutting health care costs: Keep people well. Yet the very idea of joining one makes a lot of people sick. Why? HMOs provide ...
MOST CURES for America's ruinous, $800-billion-a-year medical bill focus on changing our profligate insurance system, which encourages patients to consume -- and doctors to provide -- too much heal...
WHAT ARE NOW EQUAL to half of all pretax profits and rising fast? Answer: company health benefits. No wonder managers are desperate. And no wonder many of them are marveling at a plan adopted by on...
Marie Greenwalt will never forget the day she thought her amateur soccer career was in jeopardy. ''I was practicing shots from about 30 yards out,'' says the 36-year-old billing clerk from Tualatin...
Have you been tempted to join your company's health maintenance organization (HMO) for its low cost but feel uncomfortable about giving up visits to your family doctor or to the top specialist in t...
Dotty Bowers had suffered severe headaches since childhood, and they only got worse with time. No one seemed able to help -- not her family doctor in Middlebury Heights, Ohio, who prescribed ever-s...
MONEY asked four prominent physicians to evaluate seven of the leading medical newsletters; their comments, and composite scores on a scale of 100, are shown below. The panel included Bruce B. Dan,...
On April 1, 40 pediatricians and 35 family practitioners, disgruntled over their fees, pulled out of North Carolina's largest health maintenance organization, the 16,206-member Raleigh Blue Cross P...
For three decades now, thanks to insurance and Medicare, consumers have paid relatively little out of their own pockets for medical services. Lacking compelling reasons to trade off costs against b...
The tax consultant your brother-in-law recommended so highly has skipped town -- and left you facing an IRS claim for $10,000 in back taxes. You need an attorney, and fast. But the only one you kno...
HURTING FROM an epidemic of competition, the nation's doctors are trying some hitherto unheard-of remedies. An obstetrician in Houston sends corsages to new mothers. An ophthalmologist in Kansas Ci...
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