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"Satisficing" is a word mashup satisfactory and sufficient, describing the result of believing that perfection is the enemy of good – creating something good but not optimal.

One way to reduce health care costs is to end unnecessary testing and procedures. There are multiple national and local campaigns, targeting prescribers with guidelines for services that have no health value.

Being anti-GMO is the biotech equivalent of being anti-vaccine.

Heart failure results when the heart is overburdened, for a variety of reasons, and blood flow stagnates causing a mixture of symptoms, like swollen legs or shortness of breath.

In the past decade, has your trust in the news media changed? If you're like most Americans, it has fallen, perhaps substantially.

The decision by the Italian Parliament to drop mandatory vaccinations for children entering school has provoked numerous commentaries.

While the exact wording remains an open debate, the phrase "youth is wasted on the young" is largely attributable to George Bernard Shaw, the prodigious Irish playwright.

Neil Sedaka once noted that breaking up is hard to do. Even harder, it seems, is doing good science. Why?

A male physician in Texas, Gary Tigges, MD, faced a rude awakening when comments he believed would remain priv

The headline read, "Dental care before cancer surgery might be good idea."