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I have had the flu for two weeks. Well, to be honest, I never did get the test to confirm that it was, indeed, the flu. But, I am ok self-diagnosing this one based on the high fever, aches, chills, headache, sore throat, and barking cough.

In the aftermath of last week's Florida student massacre, there is no shortage of places to look for insight into possible remedies to America's agonizing and ongoing school-shooting epidemic.

The U.S. Congress is made up mostly of professional politicians and lawyers. This comes as a surprise to precisely no one, but the sheer numbers are rather striking.

Newly developed genomic sequencing techniques have the power not only to drive our future, but also to reconstruct our past. 

TV watching is now associated with an increased risk of forming blood clots in your legs or lungs (venous thromboembolic events - VTE), at least according to some research published in the Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis.

Sad and scary times are upon us if patient safety is your priority. Assuring medical care delivery is in a patient’s best interest while being as cost-effective as possible should be the goal of a health insurer.

Anthem is back in the news. You might remember that just a short while ago Anthem refused to pay for Emergency Department care they deemed not to be an emergency.

Antibiotic resistant bacteria are nothing short of a massive public health threat. By massive, we mean 700,000 deaths from antimicrobial-resistant infections per year.  

There are millions of traumatic brain injury (TBI) - related emergency department visits in the U.S each year.

Over the last decade, the gene editing technology CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palidromic Repeats) has become a household word.