Amid the furor over swine flu, a very important bit of health policy news seems to have been buried. President Obama just appointed a new …
Category: Diseases + conditions
New flu, but who knew?
Photo by Eneas So, did you get that flu shot yet that you were supposed to get five or six months ago? A report today …
It's just a game, but…
Having hailed from Wisconsin, I'm a pretty big football fan. (I don't exactly bleed green-and-gold, but let's just say it runs in the Cheese State-family …
More ammunition to end the "PSA era"
As major news outlets are reporting today, two large studies have shown that PSA, the screening test for prostate cancer, saves few - if any …
The hazards of sitting in traffic
Considering that my morning commute (from San Francisco to Palo Alto) took 20 minutes longer than normal today, news about a study linking traffic and …