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Restrictive practices in medicine are holding high-income countries back

A paper in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is part of a pattern: middle-income countries do a lot of primary care...

This Number of Steps May Reduce Your Dementia Risk

ADULTS WHO TAKE JUST UNDER 10,000 STEPS each day appear to have a lower risk of dementia.

The Poor May Die While the Rich Will Play

Medical insurance is no guarantee of care unless you can afford concierge healthcare, and Medicaid provides no assurance for patients.

Is Colonoscopy Effective? A New Study Raises Questions

COLONOSCOPY LOWERS COLON CANCER MORTALITY, but only modestly. That is the researchers' conclusion after ten years of follow-up of a large randomized trial from Europe.