A big study came out showing that stents to open up clogged up coronaries are no better in prolonging life than statins drugs. Let’s take that one step further: statin drugs are no better than an appl

Last week a patient dying from C. difficile, a bacterium that strikes in the intestines, was cured by receiving a stool transplant from a healthy donor. No antibiotic had helped her and her native imm

As we debate health care reform, keep in mind two points: One, fixing the fundamental problem with health care is seldom addressed. Instead, we continue to argue about how to finance a broken system.

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