Common Sense Family Doctor

A 2015 essay in the "Narrative Matters" section of Health Affairs by physician and health policy researcher Carla Keirns highligh...

For clinicians like me who worry about how health policy changes may harm our patients, there have been plenty of reasons for pessimism this...

A couple of years ago around this time, I was dealing with a series of minor health problems. I developed a sinus infection that took severa...

Millions of Americans suffer from a potentially fatal disease that has  become so common  over the past decade that it has  lowered the aver...

In 2013, the Eighth Joint National Committee (JNC 8) recommended that adults with hypertension and chronic kidney disease (CKD) be treated ...

Most readers are aware that it was my work as a medical officer in the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force program at the Agency for Health...