Health A-Z Features
- Cracking the Secret
Drug companies offer a variety of patient assistance programs, but finding out about them, and learning whether you qualify, is often difficult.
- Cleaning up the System
A look at the ignorance of residents (trainees) and practicing physicians regarding guidelines concerning their contacts with drug companies.
- Conflict of Interest Checkup.
Conflict of Interest Checkup
- Conflict of Interest Checkup
The long-standing relationship between doctors and drug companies is intended to serve mutual interests: Doctors need tested remedies with which to treat patients, and drug companies need a way to sell their tested remedies.
- Relative Power
All they wanted was to watch their two granddaughters grow up, and all she wanted to do was build a family. Yet this seemingly ordinary dispute has become a landmark legal case that raises tough questions about the limits of grandparenting.
- Forbidden Medicine
If it weren't for his few daily tokes from marijuana cigarettes, Kiyoshi Kuromiya believes he would no longer be alive
- On-the-Job Injuries
The High-Tech Disease of an Overproductive Age?
- Abortion Debate Clouds Future of Stem Cell Research
Does stem cell research result in the destruction of life, or is it the harbinger of a lifesaving scientific tool?
- Doctors of the World Unite?
Union membership, which has been steadily declining in the manufacturing sector of the U.S. economy, might be poised to gain some new ground in the health care industry.
- The ABCs of Vitamins
Find out the history behind the most popular vitamin supplements.
- The Online Pharmacy Phenomenon
Although convenient, the proliferation of Internet prescription sites is sounding alarm bells for health professionals nationwide because of a lack of standards - even illegal practices.
- Travel Insurance: Buying Online
Now, you can also go online to buy travel insurance, selecting from options that include medical coverage and evacuation and trip-cancellation insurance.
- Making Provider Choices in Managed Care
Under managed care, a primary care provider (PCP) wields considerable power. He or she is the gatekeeper who holds the keys to the specialized medical care you may need.