April 09, 2009
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If you do a Google News search for the word "octomom," you will get more than 4,000 results on most days.
What is lost in much of the coverage of... more
April 07, 2009
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Public hospitals have been closing at an alarming rate. Last month, the troubled Martin Luther King Jr. Medical... more
April 06, 2009
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Even the most curious of Dr. Barbara Philipp's patients probably didn't notice that she had a drug problem.
That's because her patients were kids.
The... more
April 02, 2009
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Six of the world's biggest drug companies are about to be winnowed down to three. If all the mergers go through, we will have Pfizer-Wyeth, Merck-Schering-Plough and Roche-Genentech controlling... more
March 29, 2009
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March 25, 2009
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When the Peanut Corporation of America recalled thousands of peanut butter products in January for fear they were tainted with salmonella, news... more
March 23, 2009
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The transaction was quick.
In the parking lot of a pastry shop, a patient handed Dr. Kachun ClementYeung $400. Yeung handed the patient a prescription for 800 milligrams of OxyContin. It... more
March 20, 2009
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Justina Wang at the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle tackled a topic that seems to scare most local publications: food safety.
With each food poisoning scare, local reporters cover what's... more
March 18, 2009
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We seem to be gripped by a national state of shock at the news that Nadya Suleman, a single mother with no job and six children, was able to have eight embryos implanted in... more
March 16, 2009
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Health care reporters know how rarely hospitals suspend a doctor's privileges. Those rights are granted and revoked by other doctors, and doctors are loathe to set a precedent by saying a botched... more
March 11, 2009
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One would think that everything that could possibly be said about lead poisoning has been printed, broadcast and e-mailed around the globe countless times.
March 09, 2009
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Sometimes, all a doctor with a checkered past wants is some peace and quiet.
Dr. Paul William Anderson had a little trouble with a medical malpractice lawsuit in Nebraska. The Medical Board... more
March 05, 2009
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Update: Dr. Gupta removed himself from the list of candidates on March 5, telling CNN's Larry King, "I think for me it really came down to a sense of timing more than anything else. This... more
February 27, 2009
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When more than half of American families sampled in a recent poll say they're skimping on medical care to save money, that's a story by any measure - and one that's easy to localize. A new... more
February 26, 2009
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's $100 million grant to the International Partnership for... more
