Washington Post’s My Time columnist Abigail Trafford says, for long-married couples, breaking up may not be that hard to do.
It also does not mean that the marriage was a failure.
Even people who pay no attention to famous people gossip—yes, there are some—were startled by the Al and Tipper Gore break-up. No rumors. They always seemed [...]

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Senate passes “doc fix” which would have slashed Medicare payments 21% and instead provided a 2.2%, which this story says is funded. Monday the bill goes to the house. Our opinion: It is about damned time.

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One of the many concerns the FDA staff had about this drug application—nicknamed the “pink Viagra”—was the way participants reported their responses to the medication or the placebo. Participants were not asked to chart daily. In light of the goal of the drug, to correctly measure study subjects’ change, if any, in sexual responsiveness, it [...]

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Where is primary care medicine’s equivalent of Paul Revere?
Someone needs to find a way to send an urgent warning that will wake people up about primary care medicine. The doctors aren’t coming! The doctors aren’t coming!
In health care reform debate, the White House and the Congress talked about the great need for more primary care [...]

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Despite the great expectations that came with the decoding of the full human genome, none of that promise has been fulfilled in the form of clinical treatments.

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The Lancet’s essay on why small steps can lead to huge gains in medicine will help readers understand how research really works. This is an elegant essay and provides a painless way to understand what scientists in labs really do. We all need to know more about this. Taxpayer dollars fund a lot of it. Not enough. But a lot.

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Is the Internet turning us into dummies? No, says an essayist in The Wall Street Journal. The Internet will give rise to whole new forms which will be greater than ever.

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The full editorial also discusses the long-term problem of funding medical care for Medicare patients.
The New York Times
“The formula that is used to pay doctors who treat Medicare patients is producing increasingly absurd results. If it were to be followed this year, doctors would face a 21 percent cut in payments for the [...]

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Michael Bloomberg is the mayor of New York City and, if there were such a title, the Public Health Mayor.
He wants to reduce or prevent smoking in New York with a regulation which requires sellers to display vivid pictures of the effects of smoking.
Here is the best part. The regulation mandates that these posters be [...]

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The World Health Organization came under fire as two reports in Europe criticized its failure to disclose conflicts of interest among the vaccine advisers it used. These advisers stood to profit from WHO’s decisions. WHO is denying any wrong-doing and has said that these reports are “conspiracy theories.”

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