The Doctor Weighs In

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• "If it ducks, then it's a quack!"
• "Memoirs of a Fat Broad" (or what it is like when you are really, really fat
• "Take a hike" - a prescription for real health care
• "The Father of Physical Culture"
• 10,000 Steps
• 1984: has it finally arrived?
• 5 to 1 - gun "rights" vs innocent victims
• 7-Up 100% natural – really?
• A 500 pound man’s rescue from the river (yet another reason to lose weight)
• A Broad Vision of Health 2.0
• A Clear, Steady Song
• A Community Hero: Selling Fresh Produce in a Liquor Store
• A Hat Tip to Pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock
• A Rage To Know: A Few Days At The Aspen Health Forum
• A Red Tide Bloom
• A Salute to Dr. Arthur Agatson - Bill Bestermann
• A blockbuster study: do stents prevent heart attacks?
• A check list for check-ups, decade by decade
• A doctor advises against “excessive Googling!”
• A newly discovered cause of diabetes: depression.
• A toothbrush for Halloween -- is that a trick or a treat?
• A walking time bomb
• A walking time bomb
• A wonderful story about determination: Two brothers live long and live well in spite of being diabetic
• ACCORD Trial Shut Down Early: Is Aggressive Glucose Lowering Finished?
• AMA Endorses Canadian-style Health Reform (Sort Of)
• Adults vs. Adolescents: is there a real difference?
• Adverse effects of fat where it doesn't belong
• Advice from the distant past: Drink, it’s good for you, but in moderation.
• Aerobic exercise and the mind/body connection
• Aerobic exercise builds brain power
• Aiding and abetting delusional thinking
• Airports and airplanes: a hazard to your health
• Alex, we love you too
• Alli, the first ever over-the-counter diet pill
• Although high risk pregnancies are becoming more common, many high risk moms and babies seem to be doing just fine
• Always hungry? Maybe you are not getting enough zzzzz's
• Alzheimer's disease: Is there daylight at the end of the tunnel, or is it an oncoming train?
• American vs Israeli breakfasts
• Americans are saying “thanks, but no thanks” to their doctors
• An Eater's Manifesto: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."
• An Open Response To HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt
• An exciting new approach to stroke paralysis
• An invitation to "The Fat Man Walking:" Join PT
• Anaphylaxis: the dread attack
• Angry moms and school food
• Another Great Man Lost Too Soon: When Will We Do What Needs to be Done?
• Answering a cry for help with a touch of humanity
• Any Red Sox fans out there? Take a look at this
• Are Republicans and Democrats made or born? The biology of political persuasion
• Are certain common chemicals contributing to the obesity epidemic?
• Are parents responsible for kids getting fat?
• Are there more male than female alcoholics?
• Are we as patient (and smart) as we think we are?
• Are we normalizing being fat?
• Are we really that unique?
• Are we “OD-ing” on CTs?
• Are you "inelegant or awkward" with a sexual partner? Have we got a cure for you.
• Are you a successful loser?
• Are you an overweight veteran? Then may be its time to get a MOVE! on
• Are you ready for "Buzz Donuts"?
• Are you ready for some really sound health advice? [hahahahaha]
• Aspen Report 3 - Removing the Blinders: Dr. Kelman’s Wonderful Contribution
• At last: an explanation how stress causes obesity
• Avandia, FDA, and the assault on science
• Avandia, GlaxoSmithKline and bullying; or, how did we get into this mess?
• Babies born to obese women face health risks (yet one more reason to lose weight)
• Bad Medicine: How The AMA Undermined Primary Care in America
• Bad childhoods and adult health
• Barbara Hillary – a new kind of oldster
• Beets
• Benign Neglect and The Nursing Shortage
• Best not to get really sick on a Saturday
• Better food ads for kids … is it a step in the right direction?
• Big meals lead to big mistakes in calorie estimation
• Biliary stents for blood vessels?
• Binge eating: my brain made me do it.
• Bipolar diagnosis in children: another epidemic?
• Bocas
• Brokers As A Mirror of The Health System
• Business As Usual: California's Reform Proposal
• Bye bye, Daylight Savings Time - it's time to be careful out there
• Byetta (exenatide): a new type of drug for type 2 diabetes
• Caloric restriction, longevity and immunity-is there a connection?
• Can VBLOC replace the need for diet and exercise?
• Can alcoholism be cured without AA?
• Can vitamins prevent dementia?
• Can we control the quality of our deaths? Do advanced directives work?
• Can you drink your way to a good long life? (The real inside story of red wine, resveratrol, and longevity)
• Can you help this man lose weight?
• Can you help this man lose weight?
• Can you trust a dancin' dentist?
• Can't I just take a pill (the risk and benefit of weight loss medications)
• Can't get health insurance? Maybe you are in the wrong job
• Carbs, fat, and your heart
• Cellulite - what it is and what you can do about it
• Check Out Health Wonk Review!
• Co-evolution: a Case of Biological Warfare
• Coaching boys into men, what a good idea!
• Confession
• Confessions of a Walking Fool
• Confused by recent health studies? Understanding the basics of study design can help...really
• Consumer Reports on Health: Worse Than Average
• Cookbook medicine saves lives
• Cosmetic surgery meets managed care
• Could a few extra pounds means fewer years of life?
• Could the Super Bowl be harmful to your health?
• Crabby Doctors and the Explosion of Big Practices
• Craig Venter: round 2
• Creating a culture of health in the heatlhcare workplace
• Crimes and Punishments: Zheng and Crawford
• Cutting through the hype--understanding food label language
• Daily weighing is a key to successful weight loss maintenance
• Danger! Bad interpretation of good data
• Dario Wolfish - 205 pounds lighter - a most remarkable guy
• Diabetes in NY makes the front page
• Diabetes: Will it break the back of our fragile health care system?
• Diabulimia - underdosing on insulin - a dangerous way to lose weight
• Diogenes syndrome: self-neglect and hoarding - not a pretty picture
• Dispatches from Israel (2): Where Science Reigns Supreme
• Dispatches from Israel: Where the Extraordinary is Taken for Granted
• Do We Have a “Mathematical Sense”?
• Do school lunches make you sick?
• Do we really have the best health care in the world?
• Do you have sleep disordered breathing? If so, you may also be at risk for diabetes
• Do you know what AGEs do to your blood vessels?
• Does living with diabetes stimulate your creative juices?
• Does praying for someone's recovery after heart surgery help?
• Does your doctor believe God heals?
• Don't Invite Anyone From Health Care
• Don’t demonize, incentivize: lessons for weight control from drug abuse treatment programs
• Dr. Google? A study of how good Google searches are at diagnosing disease
• Earning points for good health habits
• Eat Watercress—It’s good for You!
• Eat green
• Eat less, live longer?
• Eat local
• Eat more, weigh less
• Eat too much? Blame it on Letterman
• Emphysema -- a case of low oxygen supply
• End-of-Life as seen through Mark Twain's eyes
• Environmental Cues that Make Us Hungry
• Escape from prison: yet another reason to lose weight
• Et Tu, Chris ?
• Even kings can lose weight
• Even our apples are bigger
• Everything in Moderation—or Else!
• Exercise and pigging out.
• Exercise! No more excuses
• Families USA Health Action 2008 - Nancy Pelosi's Health Care Address
• Families USA Health Action 2008: An Alternative Plan
• Families USA Health Action 2008: Anthony Fauci MD on Global Health
• Families USA Health Action 2008: Berwick on Everything Health Care
• Families USA Health Action 2008: Tom Daschle on Health Care Reform
• Farm Bill or Healthy Food Bill?
• Fast food myths and facts
• Fat in the liver: good for foie gras, but very bad for people (and geese)
• Fat in the liver: good for fois gras, but very bad for people (and geese)!
• Fat toes? Did you know you can now get toe liposuction?
• Father's Day is this Sunday...Still need that perfect gift?
• Fats and oils, trans and otherwise
• Fiber and health
• Fire Burns Away the Fog of Ideology: Can Humane Health Care Reform Rise from the Ashes?
• Five Things That Everyone With Diabetes Should Know
• Food labels: a guide to healthier eating
• Food porn: Hardees and the 920 Calorie Burrito
• Food, facts, and fat
• For the sake of clarity, the classification of diabetes may get more complicated
• Forget to take your medications? Maybe you need a cybertooth.
• Four Big Trends
• From the NYT: Questions Couples Should Ask (Or Wish They Had) Before Marrying
• Fructose and Fat
• Fructose: it’s a big part of the problem
• GOD illuminated: how immunity works
• Genes and food -- food and genes
• George Carlin on aging
• Gestational diabetes - everything (well, almost everything) you wanted to know
• Get Outta My Face!
• Get a dog, get some exercise -- Got a dog? Give him some exercise
• Get in touch with your feelings -- about raisins
• Getting in touch with your feelings….about raisins
• Getting rid of the guest room
• Go organic without going broke
• Going 'veg" in Bulgaria
• Good Sense at Big Think
• Good food games - a counter to food industry tactics
• Got diabetes? Then, buy this book!
• Got girls? Check out "Girls on the Run"
• Got your flu shot yet?
• Gout and obesity: "oh my aching toe!"
• Gramma Lucy, what wonderful lessons you taught us
• Gun massacre on campus ... again
• Guys and groceries
• H. pylori and humans: an ambivalent relationship
• Happy New Year: It's time to work on our New Year's resolutions
• Happy birthday, Edna Parker
• Have you ever been tricked by a food label?
• Healing Unbound: The Promise of Advancing Computational Power - Brian Klepper
• Health Care Quote of the Year
• Health Care Reform, Whither Thou Goest?
• Health Care and The Gathering Storm
• Health Care’s Cold Truth: An Iowa Perspective
• Health Wonk Review Is Up!
• Health Wonk Review Is Up!
• Health on demand
• Healthcare Pipe Dreams (or, "What are you smoking, Mr. Gettelfinger?")
• Healthcare is a hair ball (and other learnings from Health 2.0)
• Heart surgeons going jobless
• Heartened
• Help! I hate tofu
• Here is my kind of study: Wine drinkers likely to live longer
• Here's the skinny on dental floss
• Hey men, here is something just for you.
• Hey, Doc, what is this spot on my face? Bump on my back? Rash on my belly?
• Hiking in the Pyrenees
• Hormone therapy: what’s a woman to do?
• How Might Information Technology Actually Change Health Care?
• How can anything this bad be good for you?
• How doctors think
• How much and how often should you drink? The answer may surprise you
• How the AMA's RVS Update Committee is trying to slow the growth of Medical Homes
• How to Handle the World’s Food Crisis? Ask Joseph
• How to live a good life by Dave Barry
• How to reduce your chances of getting colon cancer to practically zero
• Hubert the Beaglebasset loses weight! Yet another yay!
• Human eating behavior: it’s the leptin, stupid.
• Huntington Disease: Life in the DNA Age
• I am fat, and my genes made me do it
• If Grady Fails
• If You Want to Get It Up-You Have to Get It Down!
• If they ask, don’t tell – teen births up for the first time in 15 years
• If you are obese, you may have an imaging problem
• If you can deal with the “icky” factor, maybe Alli can help you lose weight
• If you dig hard, you can find altruism everywhere
• Improving Your Family’s Health Habits: Change Yourself before Helping Others
• In McDonald's vs Kids, Guess Who's Ahead
• In praise of the knockout mouse
• In praise of the old fashioned: Diuretics are still the best
• Info: Steve Case, Revolution Health, and Non-Profit Behavior
• Inspired by Diabetes US Grand Prize Winners
• Is "Accomplia" the next silver bullet in weight control?
• Is Meaningful Health Care (Or Any Other Kind Of) Reform Possible?
• Is anaerobic exercise bad for you?
• Is it a good idea to get our drugs from Canadian online pharmacies?
• Is it a mistake that you are so different from me? The biology of individuality
• Is obesity deadly? Here we go again…
• Is the food industry playing games with our kids? You bet it is
• Is the new age of enlightenment finally dawning?
• Is there a link between stress and bad belly fat?
• Is there benzene in your soda pop?
• Is there life after death?
• Is this the dawning of the “Age of Prevention?”
• Is your doctor for sale?
• Is your workplace making you fat?
• Jack La Lanne
• Jerking around the frail elderly
• Judah Folkman, a giant of cancer therapy, is dead.
• Karen Michaeli: On Food and Class
• Know Your Place
• Knowledge Like Clear, Clean Water: Muir Gray on Health Care's Progress
• Knowledge is power: how to get the best care for Type 2 diabetes
• Last Dispatch From Israel: Land of Paradoxes, Contradictions, and Kvetching.
• Last Dispatch From Israel: Land of Paradoxes, Contradictions, and Kvetching.
• Let us sing the praises of massage therapy
• Let's All Ask Secretary Leavitt To Explain HHS' Schizophrenia On Medicare Physician Data
• Let's get real PE back in our schools
• Leveraging The Doctor As A Trusted Authority
• Life after bariatric surgery: A personal story
• Life is not fair
• Life or Death Roulette
• Lifestyle medicine
• Like carrots? A picture is worth a thousand words
• Lose your fat cells? No way!
• Losing weight is the easy part.
• Losing your mind? It's your white matter, stupid
• Lot's of new stuff about overweight/obesity and insulin resistance
• Loving Our Children
• Madly in love—in more ways than one
• Magical - but is it magic?
• Magical foods or magical thinking
• Meanwhile, back at the Ranch
• Mechanics, Plumbers and Physicians
• Medical Myth #1: Drink 8 Glasses of Water a Day
• Medical Myth #2: Eating Turkey Makes You Drowsy
• Medical Myths in Kurdistan
• Medicare = "No Pay"
• Medicine and profits: an unwholesome alliance
• Mediterranean diet and rheumatoid arthritis
• Mercury in our food.
• Mercury vs omega 3s--should we eat fish or not?
• Michelangelo's David Returns From His US Visit
• Microloans online - you too can fund entrepreneurs in developing countries
• Mind over Body: a new meaning
• Mini blog of the day: Calories on food labels
• Mini-blog of the day: Calorie designations on food packaging
• Mini-blog of the day: Calories stored in fat
• Mini-blog of the day: Fats in common foods
• Mini-blog of the day: Heart-healthy goals for women
• Mini-blog of the day: Leading source of saturated fat in the American diet
• Moral behavior is hardwired in your brain
• More good news: Beverage pullings sodas out of schools
• More on Violence: The Role of Religion
• More on our local living environments and fitness (or lack thereof)
• More on second opinions
• More on the Bipolar Epidemic
• More on the Stem Cell Act and Bush's promised veto: Take action now
• More on transfats banned in New York: social engineering or enforced altruism? Is there a difference?
• More on weight loss drugs
• More sick children are dying at home - and that is a good thing
• Moses: the first Hippie?
• Mr. Bush's Health Care Reform Proposal
• Mr. Orszag's Surprise
• Mr. Universe needs your help
• Musings on Billie Jean King, Tennis, and Dopamine
• Musings on the drunks of Oulu , wine and “good” cholesterol
• My Friend Bob
• My Space (on United Airlines) is really, really bad (and I am really, really mad)
• My Teachers Knew Better
• My dog can tell time
• My healthy Bulgarian vacation
• NIH Press Release: Most behaviors preceding major causes of preventable death have begun by young adulthood
• Natural Orifice Surgery: No more belly scars, but not for squeamish
• Network Medicine: a fascinating development.
• Networking can be hazardous to your health: The new science of social networks
• New Competition: Disruptive Innovations in Health Care
• New IOM report: Food marketing to children and youth: threat or opportunity?
• New Measurements Can Determine the Risk for Heart Attack - [Video]
• New Recommendations Regarding Exercise and Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes
• New TDWI feature: Research studies you can participate in
• New Targets for LDL (“bad cholesterol”) for people with diabetes and coronary heart disease
• New Technology to Determine Risk of Heart Attack
• New Year's resolutions focus on getting healthy in 2006
• New advice about discarding old meds
• Nineteen years and still counting: the deadly delay in treatment of heart disease
• Nirvana and Your Brain
• No good news on the prevention front
• Nutritional pornography and other fun stuff
• Obese people earn less, yet another reason to lose weight
• Obesity and health: A lawyer interprets the medical literature and gets it partly right, but mostly wrong
• Obesity in men is linked to infertility
• Obesity: The devil made me do it.
• Old Drugs, New Insights.
• On Corporate Medicine: A Response To Brian Klepper, and His Reply
• On Medical Miracles
• On Practical Reforms
• On guys, groceries, and dumb blondes.
• On vacation
• Only older women benefit from a caffeine boost (sorry, guys)
• Oral Hygiene without the toothpaste
• Oranges or orange juice?
• Oranges or orange juice?
• Origins of Major Human Infectious diseases
• Overweight and insulin resistant at 13, diabetic with heart disease at 30?
• Oxygen, free radicals, and all that jazz
• PCOS, infertility, and insulin resistance
• Paid back...Nora and Yum are on their way
• Paul Ekman and the human face
• Pediatricians to add exercise as a routine "vital sign"
• People are buying more fresh fruit and less high sugar fruit products
• Pertty darn good weight loss advice
• Pick up the pace
• Plumpy'nut
• Policy- vs. Market-Based Reform: RHIOs as a Case Study
• Pop Quiz: Can you guess the percentage of fat Americans?
• Pop Quiz: What's the difference between glycemic index and glycemic load?
• Pop Quiz: What is the health of our nation?
• Pop quiz: What are the most common fruits and vegetables consumed by Americans?
• Pop quiz: What are the most common vegetables and fruits consumed by Americans?
• Portion wise or portion lies: An afternoon snack of almonds
• Portion wise or portion lies: Wine
• Portion wise or portion lies? Cheerios
• Portion wise or portion lies? Cheerios
• Portion wise or portion lies? Peanut butter and jelly
• Pot bellies of the world—beware!
• Potatoes, french fries and chocolate milk
• Practical Advice to Employers On Managing A Health Plan
• Preventing heart attacks in women - should everyone have a personal cook and trainer?
• Prions can kill you
• Proteins: to eat or not to eat? or maybe to eat less?
• Queen Hatshepsut: please tell me it isn’t so!
• Quintessential San Francisco
• Quitting is hard; staying clean is hell.
• Quotable quotes from Health 2.0
• RHIOs: Translators in health care Babel
• Random Walks Through Stock trading, Testosterone, Guts and Brains
• Really, really good answers to your health and fitness questions
• Rebuilding The Medical Home: What Walgreens Surely Sees
• Recent research on weight loss and obesity
• Restylane, an anti-wrinkle drug: is the long promised revolution here?
• Reversing heroin overdoses at home – an innovative approach to saving lives
• Ruminations From Panama: How Do Turtles Do It?
• SAGE, a needle-free, fast-free diabetes screening test
• Saving the world: volunteerism vs social entrepreneurism
• Schizophrenia: the making of a new paradigm
• Science and Censorship
• Science and Politics – a Guide to the Perplexed
• Scientists discover a gene that confers significant risk of Type 2 diabetes
• Scientists speculate on the seat of schizophrenia in the brain?
• Screening for gestational diabetes – Who? When? How?
• Searching for value in a luxury hotel – checking out how the “other half” lives
• Selenium supplement—another myth debunked
• Shame on the New York Times
• Shannon Brownlee's Overtreated
• Should We Have Health Care Performance Transparency? By Whom? And How?
• Should parental hopes trump safety? The argument for vaccinating young girls against the virus that causes cervical cancer
• Should we use the law to combat obesity?
• Show Me Yours And I'll Show You Mine: Transparency and Health Care Power Shifts
• Sleep deprivation is hazardous to your health
• Sloppy blood pressure monitoring
• Social contact and longevity: is there a relationship ?
• Soda, fat, and sin tax
• Some people will eat anything
• Sorry, there's no room at the inn (in other words, we are not taking any new patients)
• Spending more on gasoline? Yet another reason to lose weight
• Statin Treatment for Cholesterol: The Big Picture
• Staying fuller longer - the role of protein meals and PYY
• Stem cell therapy is no longer “theoretical”—what now?
• Stress: the silent killer
• Stroke!
• Study finds exercise helps delay dementia
• Superbowl Sunday Diet Challenge: Tips on how to survive without completely blowing it
• Supply-driven demand for cardiac procedures
• Support hope: Bombard Pres. Bush with demands to not veto S 5
• Taking Obesity Seriously
• Talk? or Text? What works best for you?
• Teaching lunch in schools
• Thanksgiving meal over—are you still OK?
• The Age of Individual Medicine is Dawning
• The Anatomy of an Exotic epidemic: When Science and Politics Collide
• The Ayurvedic Penthouse
• The Body/Mind connection: Immunity is affected by your brain
• The Buzz of the Day: Learning about life, love, and energy balance from honeybees
• The Champions Gala
• The Cost of Diabetes
• The Families USA Health Action 2008 Conference
• The Man Who is Walking Across Country to Lose Weight Tells How it Feels to be Fat in America
• The Myth of Health Care Consumerism
• The New Science of Coronary Artery Disease: A Practical Example - Bill Bestermann
• The Physician's Guide to Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse - another "must have" book
• The Politics of Publicly-Funded Health Care
• The State of Employer-Sponsored Coverage
• The Super Bowl Sunday Diet Challenge - Tips on how to survive without completely blowing it
• The Top 10 Good Foods, Gone Bad
• The Value of Presence
• The Virginia Tech massacre: the hopeful perspective
• The aspirin dilemma: to take or not to take?
• The best $14.17 I ever got
• The best health risk assessment tool yet: powered by “Archimedes”
• The best health risk assessment yet: powered by Archimedes
• The biology of human altruism - are people hard-wired to do good?
• The bionic man is at our doorstep
• The calories we forget to count
• The cardiometabolic syndrome: A complex metabolic web that requires a sophisticated approach to treatment
• The charges against Mr. Universe are dropped
• The cognitive dissonance of conflicted care
• The downside of using wine to live longer
• The epidemic of childhood obesity -- a personal point of view
• The fight for the public's health (or how to walk the fine line between "free choice" and mandates)
• The great Thanksgiving pigout - how much is it going to cost you?
• The healthy Boise lifestyle
• The healthy blood pressure dietary prescription: drink less, salt less, lose weight and eat your fruits and vegetables
• The heparin files: the plot thickens.
• The horror of war written on the face of a boy
• The impact of abuse on the brain
• The impending demise of abstinence-only programs: finally fighting back with facts
• The key to long life, it's in the genes after all
• The latest stem cell breakthrough: what is in it for you?
• The making of a mass killer
• The most addictive drug is now even more addicting.
• The obesity epidemic-again?
• The obesity epidemic: genes, or addiction?
• The placebo effect is really in your head.
• The psychology and neuroscience of hypocrisy
• The psychology of successfully maintaining weight loss
• The quest for longevity (part 1) - do we really have to die?
• The roots of empathy
• The spectacular failure of Pfizer’s cholesterol drug: the story behind the story
• The “controversy” around vaccines
• There is a lot to like about Arnold’s health reform proposal
• This and That: Mr. Darwin's Anniversary
• This and that
• This and that (part two)
• This one is for the toddler's moms
• This one is so good, I can't add a thing
• Those Crazy Californians. This Time Its Childhood Obesity.
• Those liberal Californians are at it again – even the conservative ones
• Thrifty genes in the "land o' plenty"
• To An Engaged Life
• To Fix Health Care, Fix America First
• To weigh or not to weigh? That is the question
• Tobacco Legislation: A Case Study of Democracy in Action
• Too much food and too little exercise leads to leaks in our energy pipeline.
• Toxic baby bottles: an oldie, but goodie
• Training for a marathon? Can red wine help?
• Trans fats banned in New York: is it “enforced altruism”?
• Travel incompetence: an unexpected way to get some exercise
• Truth and consequences: The sad tale of Avandia, GSK, the FDA, and medical research
• Twisted logic – selling guns at a discount to save lives
• Type 2 Diabetes Treatment Made Easy
• Uncertain what you should do about your medical problem? Maybe your doctor is too.
• VPH: The beautiful face of globalization
• Vaccine prevents weight gain
• Vaccines vs. antibiotics: which is better?
• Vegansexuality - a new lifestyle choice
• Viagra for what???
• Vitamins and supplements: Are they good for us or are they a waste of money?
• WISE up! When is comes to heart disease, women are different from men
• Waiting for a weight pill? Don't hold your breath
• Walking off almost 200 pounds
• Want a healthy breakfast? Try a salad
• Want to Live to 100? Read This
• Want to be smart? Botox for the brain is on its way
• Want to live longer? Forget starvation diet
• Want to lose weight (and make new friends), try mowing lawns
• Want to make money off the obesity epidemic? Have I got a deal for you!
• Want to motivate healthy habits?
• Want to pass this test? Go to sleep
• Warranties for heart surgery offer peace of mind and promote patient safety
• We Are What We Eat: Where Is America's Leadership? - Brian Klepper
• We Must Be Stupid, Stupid, Stupid: Mega Life and Health
• We are fat and getting fatter
• We are the Only Animals that Cry.
• We know doctors can't write well, but it isn't just about the handwriting
• Weight loss is the key to diabetes prevention
• Welcome to Health Care Wonk Review - September 6, 2007
• Welcome to Wonderland: The Mad Hatter has been retrained and is making expandable metal cages to place in arteries.
• WellWriting for Health after Trauma and Abuse: A Wonderful Little Book
• What Can Oxygen Do To You?
• What Makes Humans Unique?
• What Medicine Can Learn From the Progress in Military Strategy
• What Obesity Really Costs
• What can the lowly roundworm teach us about longevity?
• What is the best drug to prevent the onset of type 2 diabetes?
• What medicine can learn from Toyota , the U.S Navy, and jet pilots.
• What we really eat on Thanksgiving
• What would you give for a snoring solution for your snoring partner?
• What's HHS' Real Position on Releasing Medicare Physician Data?
• What’s all the fuss about lead?
• When is food marketed as healthy really unhealthy?
• When it comes to diabetes drugs, what matters is event reduction
• When it comes to lipids, size matters
• When it comes to losing weight, I am for whatever really works
• When your life depends on it, get a second opinion
• Where is the Al Gore of obesity when you need him?
• Who is afraid of immigration?
• Whole foods grows big, but buys small
• Whole wheat may prevent breast cancer (at least in rats)
• Whose genes are my genes anyway?
• Why Are Americans Resistant to Science?
• Why Are We So Dumb?
• Why Can’t We Do It?
• Why Consumers’ Checkbook v CMS is a Sideshow
• Why Does Arthritis Involve the Joints?
• Why Its Unlikely That We'll Curb Obesity and Diabetes
• Why are the pacifists so passive?
• Why do people cry when they cut onions?
• Why do we get the flu only in the winter?
• Why don’t sumo wrestlers die of heart disease?
• Women with breast cancer can lower their risk of dying by 50%.
• Working out in the Copper Canyon
• World Diabetes Day – "no child should die of diabetes"
• Worried about your cholesterol? It may not be what you eat, but how much you eat
• Writer inspires others to lose weight
• Yearning for Universal Coverage Is Not Universal
• Yes boomers, the revolution in aging medicine is here.
• Yoga may protect against cardiovascular disease
• Yogurt - health food? or dessert?
• You ate it, but did it get absorbed?
• You ate it, but did it get absorbed?
• You got it off - now, can you keep it off?
• Your weight is ultimately in your head.
• Zaatar - add some spice to your life (or at least to your veggies)
• “911, my wife is dying...please send help to the ER"
• “Larval therapy”, just another name for cleaning wounds with maggots
• “Why so much medical research is rot”