Life & Health

I am seeing, first hand, rampant and uncontrollable costs related to end of life in a system that lacks any semblance of common sense.

Cancer drugs have become extraordinarily expensive even though many provide little benefit. Shouldn't prices reflect benefits?

Soft tissue injury is extremely common but hard to diagnose and subject to unnecessary and expensive treatment. EFA provides a better tool.

We'll settle the wellness debate the old-fashioned way: offering a $1 million reward to anyone who can prove it isn't a horrible investment.

Elements of medical care in the U.S. just plumb confound me. One is the requirement of a prescription for the most mundane of items.

Via iDoctor, huge numbers of tests can be done more cheaply and faster and could be much less wasteful in terms of patients’ time.

The federal government is demanding better security for personal health data, and those operating health plans must react.

Early studies on using mammograms to screen for breast cancer were deeply flawed, largely because they can lead to over-diagnosis.