Harvard has made it as painless as possible to find out about your personal health risks for 12 common, serious problems.
An A + Harvard Site Tells You How To Bring Down Your Own Health Risks for Killer Diseases
Better yet, the site gives you your own plan for bringing your personal risks down.
Small changes may make […]

Who Is This For?
This Action Plan and Checklist will help you if:

You or your loved one was referred to a specialist for specific treatment, such as a surgical procedure, or for ongoing management of a life-threatening disease.
You or your loved one faces ongoing treatment for a diagnosis which may have a significant effect on quality […]

You can keeping your meds list current for your caregivers if you use this tip plus a website.
Overview
Medication error stories usually urge people to keep careful, current lists of their meds. That is real work if you have to take a number of prescriptions.
If you need to check a medication, use the Drug Digest Pill […]

NIH Funding Drop: Will a cut in NIH funding hurt research? If so, it could affect everyone.

Never. Well, Hardly Ever. A doctor talks about keeping secrets.
In The New York Times, an essay by Sandeep Jauhar, M.D., discusses why and how doctors keep secrets—-and the lapses which still occur.
The public rarely gets a glimpse into physician secret-keeping. This is a fast look at how it works.
“The World Health Association states that confidentiality […]

A video helps people make more informed decisions about end-of-life care.
A video produced by doctors affiliated with Harvard Medical School showed that, as a result of seeing what “comfort care” versus “aggressive care” those watching shifted their views in favor or comfort to 89 percent, reports the Washington Post.
The research was published in the Archives […]

FDA Warns of Web site Selling Bogus Drugs: If you get RX by mail, read this to find tips on safe websites.

Experts say that about 80 percent of personal health-care decisions and health-care managing is done by women—-wives, of course, but mothers, friends, partners, grandmothers, ones he works with, too.
When a man has a caring female in his life to urge him to get to a doctor, that is a plus for him. (A small but […]

Atul Gawande, M.D., author and physician, explains a Massachussetts-style program which lays out how people who are happy with their insurance can keep it, while a mandated state-level program takes care of the uninsured. He has been a guest columnist for The New York Times Op-Ed page.
The author says, “The American health insurance system […]

Kaiser Foundation says what doctors already knew. Moms manage family health care.
“Mothers are the unsung heroes of the health-care system. In a survey of families, the Kaiser Family Foundation reported in 2003 that 80% of mothers assume the major role in choosing the family doctor and taking children to appointments. Doctors say wives often make […]