Category: Health & Medical

This year’s flu outbreak is already one of the worst on record. Making the threat worse is a shortage of IV saline. This shortage expose a dangerous flaw in the medical supply chains that everyone relies on. to counter disease outbreaks or bio-terrorism. If these weaknesses are not addressed we are headed for disaster.

How much is a patient’s eyesight worth?

To address rising health problems in the 1980s, scientists and policymakers developed the US Food Pyramid to encourage healthy eating. But despite a massive public education campaign, obesity and diabetes continued to rise. What happened? How did we get it so… wrong?

A new law requires Texas’ freestanding emergency rooms to more clearly communicate what health insurance networks they’re in, if any.

The medical benefits of cannabis are many, and scientific research is being conducted to explore the application of the plant in several disease categories, including multiple sclerosis, seizures, glaucoma, cancer, Alzheimer’s, and migraines.