President Obama said the health care mandate wasn't a tax, but Thursday the Supreme Court upheld the law because it was.
Two medical education groups and 130 medical schools signed on to first lady Michelle Obama's initiative to "train the nation's physicians to meet the unique health care needs of the military and veterans communities," the White House announced Wednesday.
The crisis in Israel's health system entered its second day Tuesday, as scores more resident doctors resigned from public hospitals across the country over a pay dispute.
By the time Mike Moore finishes school and starts his career as a doctor, he'll be in his 50s.
After years of being the black sheep of the medical profession, family medicine is becoming more attractive to med students. The reason -- health reform.
Two business giants -- one a upscale manufacturer, the other a discount retailer -- clashed at the Supreme Court Monday in an important business case dealing with imported goods sold at low cost in the United States.
Like many Americans, you probably think you're pretty charitable. Perhaps you donate money to the needy or ill, give away your old clothes, volunteer at your child's school or participate in holiday gift drives in December.
Theresa Brown's thoughtful essay on end-of-life care reminded me of a recent clinical encounter. It was a hot July afternoon when I found myself in a quiet hospital lounge, having "the family discussion" with a patient newly admitted to my medical service, a sweet middle-aged woman whose lung cancer had spread so extensively that it now encircled the vital vessels of her chest.
More than 16,000 U.S. medical school graduates are awarded M.D. degrees each year, and many enter their residency programs at teaching hospitals in July. Now, a growing body of research suggests that month might be a more deadly time in U.S. hospitals.
The way current legal suicide is practiced in several states is wrong, Dr. Jack Kevorkian tells CNN 's Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
There are countless opinions regarding how to improve health care in the United States, but many experts agree on one fact: "Our current health-care system is mainly a sick-care system," says Adam Perlman, executive director of the Institute for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.
It is not the kind of view you expect these days in downtrodden Michigan. From this rooftop plaza on the 17th floor of Bridgewater Place, evidence of urban renewal spreads in every direction. Directly to the south is the modern campus of Grand Valley State University, home to 11,000 students. Across the Grand River lies the sprawl of the redeveloped entertainment district, with its new arena and convention center, steps away from downtown business and government office buildings. Atop a hill to the east is the city's crown jewel: a $1 billion (and growing) medical complex that includes a cancer research center, specialized treatment facilities, and a medical school.
For one doctor practicing in America's heartland, the new health care law and its incentives to keep doctors on the farm is a start, not a solution, to the medical care crisis afflicting rural America.
America could be facing a nursing shortage that will worsen exponentially as the population grows older.
Her bedside manner is comforting, the questions to the point.
President Obama praises the Senate's health reform compromise and says the new framework will pave the way to passage.
CNN's Blogger Bunch discusses when troops can duck military service.
Those who knew Nidal Malik Hasan before he was a major in the Army -- and the suspect in last week's mass killing at Fort Hood -- say he was long known for militant Islamist views.
In 2007, a resident surgeon snapped a picture of a patient's tattoo -- the words Hot Rod on his penis -- and shared it with colleagues, making international news when the story was leaked to the press. At least the resident didn't post the picture on the Internet.
The FBI joins the search for graduate student Annie Marie Le who was last seen Tuesday
The incoming freshmen at one of the nation's newest medical schools will have more freedom to choose whether to become a specialist or help fill the shortage of primary care doctors.
Six hundred medical residents have been fired in western India for going on strike, officials said.
Luis Manriquez and Katherine Glass share a common -- and increasingly rare -- ambition: They both want to become family doctors.
Question 1. I have 8,000 dollars saved but it is just sitting in a savings account earning almost no interest. Is there something better that I can put my money into that is safe? -- Cory
College tuition increases about 5% to 8% a year. And most students are now just beginning to get their financial aid packages.
A grand jury has indicted Philip Markoff on seven counts, including Murder One
Philip Markoff pleads not guilty to charges related to the so-called Craigslist killing.
A 23-year-old medical student pleaded not guilty Monday to an indictment alleging first-degree murder charge in a killing tied to Craigslist.
A Massachusetts grand jury late last week indicted a 23-year-old medical student on seven counts, including first-degree murder, in the fatal shooting of one woman and the robbery of another in Boston hotels.
Newly released videos are raising questions about the military's continued use of live animals in simulated battlefield medical training.
Philip Markoff was arrested after an exhaustive manhunt along the East Coast
A British med school is having students learn by treating virtual patients in the online world 'Second Life'.
At Imperial College London, medical students navigate a full-service hospital where they see patients, order X-rays, consult with colleagues and make diagnoses.
Nancy Grace reports on Maura Murray, a young nursing student who vanished after a minor car accident.
CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta looks at a new survey that finds half of all primary physicans surveyed want to leave their practices.
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.
You're sick, in the hospital, or maybe even undergoing surgery. The last thing you want to contemplate is the thought that your doctor might be making fun of your toe rings while you're anesthetized.
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
Edna sits on an examining table ready and alert -- she wants answers about the lump in her breast.
Toney Dixon's fascination with dead bodies goes back to her childhood, when she would sneak around her uncle's funeral home and watch him prepare bodies.
EUGENE -- The news came late yesterday afternoon that Justin Gatlin's last attempt at judicial intervention to enable his participation in the Olympic Track and Field Trials had been turned aside. (In a hilarious Blackberry World moment, this information was delivered in a press conference here by a colleague of mine who first asked U.S. 100-meter favorite and world champion Tyson Gay how he would feel -- hypothetically -- if Gatlin ran and then modified his question 15 minutes later to ask how Gay felt -- actually -- that Gatlin was, in fact, not running). Gay's answers, in summary: Bad, and then better.
Ask doctors if their male patients ignore big and obvious health symptoms, and they'll respond with laughter -- huge peals and guffaws.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports on a baby enrolled in a clinical trial for a severe congenital heart defect.
When Heidi Sadowsky quit the finance sector, she abandoned a job market on the verge of collapse for one that may be air-tight: nursing.
First-year medical students are some of the biggest hypochondriacs around. Bombarded with information about every disease under the sun, they start to imagine they have them all. In their minds, every mole is skin cancer. A nosebleed is surely a sign of a tumor. Headache? Must be skyrocketing blood pressure.
Money Magazine: Young doctors in debtupdated: Fri Nov 16 2007 11:47:00
It's Wednesday evening and Megan Reis can't remember when she last saw her husband Chris. Small wonder. Since Sunday morning, Meg has worked more than 60 hours at Advocate Hope Children's Hospital, the Chicago-area facility where she is training in pediatrics.
In a recent column, Emily Breidbart, a second-year medical student at New York University School of Medicine, expressed concerns about her medical education and the frustrating health-care system she will soon enter.
U.S. troops should stay in Iraq to keep ethnic violence from spiraling out of control, but they shouldn't stay too long, according to a panel of Iraqi youth convened by CNN.
Iraqi youth speak to Aneesh Raman about the situation on the ground and respond to questions from viewers in the U.S.
A new study shows that a standardized test of doctor communication skills can help create a nicer, better doctor of the future
"Two minutes!" yells our course coordinator.
Eight people in custody as part of the wide-ranging investigation into failed car bombings in London and Glasgow all have links to the medical profession.
A woman who lost both legs and an arm as a child is poised to become a doctor for children.
It's been more than a decade since her 13-year-old daughter, Maria-Victoria, died in a car accident, but Lynda Boucugnani will never forget the doctor who delivered the news. "I remember he sat down, but his first words were, 'Your daughter is deceased.' That just struck me as so cold, so cold," says Boucugnani. The experience was horrendous, she says. "I expected a little bit more compassion ... there was no, 'I'm sorry,' no touching my hand. These things would have meant the whole world to me."
At the only hospital in the capital of this tiny West African nation, a 3-year-old AIDS patient named Suleiman receives his daily dose of medication -- a murky brown concoction of seven herbs and spices served out of a bottle that once contained pancake syrup.
What's the biggest company in the biggest sector of the biggest economy on earth? You're forgiven if you don't know the answer: McKesson, America's largest health-care-services company, with revenu...
When Jean Horgan complained of heart palpitations, her doctor told her it was just nerves.
Dear Annie: Recently on a talk-radio show I heard some people discussing "insourcing," which is not a term I've heard before. I tuned in too late to catch most of what was said, but I'm curious: Is insourcing like outsourcing, i.e., another threat to American jobs? -Kansas Kid
Stanford University Medical Center announced Tuesday it is joining a small group of academic medical centers in banning its physicians from accepting industry gifts of any size, including drug samples.
The phone rang. It was the middle of the night.
Dr. Blaise L. Congeni has always been in a hurry.
Dr. Ali Rezai is a doctor of last resort.
Dr. David Olson has had patients in a remote region between Armenia and Azerbaijan. He has treated people in the breakaway Georgian republic of Abkhazia near the Black Sea and in a gulag prison hospital in Siberia. He has had patients in a northwest Uganda town called Arua.
Like Dorothy and Toto, Dr. Barry Goldman is definitely not in Kansas anymore -- and his patients are most grateful.
Doctors and hospitals once held onto medical records as closely as a poker player clutches a straight flush. But thanks to Dr. Daniel Z. Sands and collaborators, Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is laying its cards on the table.
As a child, John Karaffa had a single driving ambition that became the central theme of his life -- he wanted to help people.
Growing up in Yonkers, New York, a blue-collar suburb that borders the Bronx, Robert V.P. Hutter dreamed from the time he was 10 than he would become a great psychiatrist. He didn't.
After teetering on the brink for years, Dr. David Foster abandoned the grit and grime of Boston inner-city medicine for the full-time glitz of Hollywood.
When people learn that Dr. John Bradberry is a ship's doctor the first question they ask is, "Do you wear white shorts?"
Dr. Robert Stewart has performed about 11,000 open-heart operations during his career as a cardiac surgeon, but on September 5 he will finally become what he wanted to be when he grew up -- a soldier.
As NASA prepares to return to manned space flight, Columbia widower Jon Clark also has been thinking more about the future and less about the past.
The medical year begins on July 1, the day that medical school graduates finish their training as resident physicians and stream out into the real world of shingles and stethoscopes.
From the heartupdated: Mon Jun 20 2005 14:36:00
Dr. Christopher P. Cannon is not your father's cardiologist, but he was, in an unexpected way, his father's cardiologist.
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.
Dr. David Reuben is the anti-Peter Pan.
FSB: Classroom Actupdated: Tue Mar 01 2005 00:01:00
Stanley H. Kaplan is 85, and his memory is spotty. For instance, he's not sure how much he got for his famous test-prep company when he sold it to the Washington Post Co. in 1984. "I think ...," he...
Lawyers for a man accused of pretending to be a plastic surgeon and disfiguring patients filed a written not guilty plea Friday in a Miami Circuit Court.
Jurors in Scott Peterson's murder trial have elected as foreman an attorney who also holds a medical degree.
Police arrested Mark Hacking on suspicion of aggravated murder Monday in connection with the disappearance two weeks ago of his wife, Lori, who he said was pregnant.
The family of Lori Hacking, a Utah woman missing for nearly two weeks, said her husband has provided information that makes the search for her unnecessary.
The parents of a missing pregnant woman's husband told reporters Wednesday they had just learned that their son lied about being accepted to a medical school in North Carolina.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - This year, for the first time in the history of Harvard University, the number of women offered admission to the incoming undergraduate freshman class outpaced the number of men.
The chief of UCLA's medical school apologized Monday for the apparent sale of parts of bodies that were donated to the school and announced steps to ensure such practices do not recur.
Some people seem destined to make the world a better place. Dr. Evaleen Jones of Menlo Park, Calif. is one of them.
Some entrepreneurs become household names; others just become household surnames, like Colonel Sanders or Mrs. Paul. Consider, for example, William Mathias Scholl, whose name probably doesn't ring ...
War, stock market blowouts, unemployment, terrorist alerts--there's no question that life in America has been stressful lately. Says Michael Faenza, ceo of the National Mental Health Association: "...
As I sit in my office at 8 P.M., nearing the end of a 12-hour shift, seeing snotty noses and sewing up lacerations, I reflect on your answer to a premed student's query about income...." So begins ...
Larry Ellison has the good life down pat--health, youthful good looks, vast wealth, a fast sailboat, airplanes, and more gorgeous amours than a Hollywood hunk. But like every potentate from King Tu...
Next time you're killing time in the doctor's waiting room, ponder this paradox: Congress has concluded that there are too many, not too few, physicians in this country. Washington's remedy for thi...
DURING AN ANNUAL industry gathering, the regional manager of a communications giant began to feel warm. The air conditioner must be on the blink, she thought. But then she realized that everyone el...
Wanted: dead or . . . well, dead. In 1991, researchers Victor Spitzer and David Whitlock of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver launched a wide-ranging search for a perfectl...
It's a languid summer day at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, Calif., and the 25 students in Mr. Nasby's second-year calculus class would rather be working on their tans than learning about doub...
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...
Last July, shortly after Lauren Davis, 33, and David Toups, 29, became engaged, they decided to reverse the traditional order of nuptial events by buying the nest before cooing ''I do.'' The New Or...
Last July, shortly after Lauren Davis, 33, and David Toups, 29, became engaged, they decided to reverse the traditional order of nuptial events by buying the nest before cooing ''I do.'' The New Or...
Hippocrates's profession is gathering new fans. The number of med school applicants, which declined through most of the Eighties, has increased by 15% over 1990 to 33,600, more than twice the space...
Q. My elderly mother is considering giving me her house. It has a value of approximately $95,000 and comes with an equity loan of about $35,000. I would assume that loan and then rent the house to ...
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