I just finished reading " Tattoos on the Heart " by Gregory Boyle. I came to it partly via Krista Tippett 's conversation with...

One of the reasons my blogging has fallen off lately is because I hate sounding like a broken record. Yet here I am again calling this time ...

This, from the On Being blog : Dr. Shay has his own name for the thing the clinical definition of PTSD leaves out. He calls it “moral inju...

I have been looking up information on endometriosis for a friend of mine, and came upon this  from the American College of Obstetricians and...

Here is an infographic (I know) from the Institute of Medicine who just released this report. According to it, we are wasting $750 billion ...

I have started a FAQ page on the BTL book web site here , and I will cross-post the discussion here on the blog. This will give us an opport...

Are you familiar with the trolley problem ? It is an ethics dilemma first formulated by the great Philippa Foot as a part of a series of su...

Another study this week added to the controversy about early prostate cancer treatment. The press, as usual, stopped at citing the conclusi...

Update 7/18/12, 3:30 PM eastern : The Hill has reported here that the bill has cleared the subcommittee. It will be going to the full com...

Update, July 12, 4:30 PM Eastern: Just got this extra lame reply from healthfinder: Dear Ms. Zilberberg,   Thank you for contacting heal...

This morning I was listening to the Morning Edition on NPR, and heard a story about the tax on medical devices that is written into the hea...

Scott Hensley over at the NPR's Shots blog posted a story about the recently approved molecular diagnostic test that can rapidly identi...