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The Annals of Internal Medicine produced a hat-trick of material on screening for lung cancer, a study, a letter, and editorial. What is the big interest?

Tinnitus, a humming or ringing sound you hear when no sound is actually present is a clinical condition that affects about 15% of the US population. It is the most common service-connected disability of our veterans.

I ran across two articles this morning, which I need to share in part because they are profoundly troubling to me. 

Flu season is ramping up and the cases that have already occurred are being used to make predictions on what will be coming down the pike when it peaks in a month or two.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders recently revealed President Donald Trump will undergo his first physical examination at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (see

Yes, it's time for those end of the year inquiries into people's thoughts and plans, and the Marist Poll, run by the Marist College Institute for Public Op

Half listening to the television I heard we spend more on state lotteries than movies, books, video, and music.

Scientists and lawyers do not get along. There's a reason for that. Simply put, scientists and lawyers do not think alike.

Value-based healthcare is the refrain for all the stakeholders, patients and their advocacy groups, physicians and their societies, payers both insurance and government. We must replace payment for volume or procedures with payment for value.

Bad boys, bad boys  What'cha gonna do? What'cha gonna do when they come for you?