Common Sense Family Doctor

My Christmas post is the 7th in an annual series listing my 10 favorite public health and health care reads of the past year. Not all of th...

Eleven years ago, I wrote a post for my U.S. News Healthcare Headaches blog titled " Decoding doctor-speak: translations of common med...

Without question, PSA screening for prostate cancer in asymptomatic patients does them both harm and good; the difficulty in quantifying how...

From 1977 to 2003, seven Joint National Committees (JNC), sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), produced conse...

At the 27th United Nations Conference of the Parties ( COP27 ) conference that concluded in Egypt yesterday, participants agreed that wealth...

During the first two winters of the pandemic, social distancing and mask wearing protected many persons - particularly infants and older adu...