Insufficient insurance payments, administrative hassles tied to insurance claims and rising business and malpractice insurance expenses are among the most commonly cited contributing factors to …
Month: February 2012
Heartening developments: Stanford expert discusses innovations in cardiac care
February is American Heart Month, and to mark the occasion I sat down with Robert Robbins, MD, chair of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery (and …
More evidence that chronic stress may increase children's risk of obesity
The more ongoing stress children are exposed to the greater the odds they will struggle with their weight as adolescents, according to a study recently …
Should sugar be blamed for all our health woes?
We wrote yesterday about a UC San Francisco paper calling for the regulation of sugar. So what does Stanford nutrition consultant Jo Ann Hattner, RD, think …
Wellness after cancer: Stanford opens clinic to address survivors' needs
Someone in my family survived lung cancer six years ago. The treatment didn't include radiation or chemotherapy, and the tumor was removed neatly by an …
Future of medical research is at risk, says Stanford medical school dean
The inability of a congressional "super committee" to deliver a budget proposal has endangered the U.S. medical research enterprise and the potential discovery of future …
UCSF researchers call for sugar to be regulated like alcohol and tobacco
In a new paper in Nature, UC San Francisco researchers argue that sugar, with its "potential for abuse, coupled with its toxicity and pervasiveness in …
The smoking gun of the Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher's relationship with the tobacco industry
I have to admit, I've not yet seen Meryl Streep's Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady. But the chameleon actress who inhibits the skin of …