Flu season — or at least the traditional flu season — still is a month away. But four Jefferson County schools are taking an unexpected holiday this week, closed by outbreaks of swine flu.
That’s left doctors and public health officials…
President Barack Obama will try to retake the initiative on health care reform this evening with a nationally televised address to Congress. Conventional wisdom holds that it will be among the most important speeches of his political career.
That’s entirely backward.
Whatever…
Celebrity news website TMZ released this picture of a very pregnant Nadya Suleman, who gave birth to octuplets last month in California.
Last month, 33-year-old Nadya Suleman gave birth to octuplets in a California hospital. The eight babies — and their…
We’ve all heard those pitches for prearranged funerals: Make arrangements now so your loved ones don’t have all that stress in a “time of need.”That might be a good idea, but how’s this for stress: You lay out thousands of…
You drop your car off for routine service. The mechanic has bad news. He needs to replace a part you’ve never heard of. It’s going to be expensive, he says.
Is this for real, you ask yourself, or is he just…
Having health insurance used to mean that if you got sick, you’d get all the medical care you needed. Not any more.
A new survey from the nonpartisan Center for Studying Health System Change found significant increases in the number of people…
The birth of a new iceberg — usually when a huge chunk falls off a glacier or ice floe, a process known as “calving”– is said to be an awe-inspiring thing. The birth of a new verb is most often…
If it were put to a simple up-or-down vote today, Missouri lawmakers probably would agree to extend health insurance coverage to about 55,000 working parents who are struggling to raise their children.
But that’s not going to happen. Extending health insurance to…
No, it’s not a cure for cancer. But a California drug company has won federal approval to market a medicine that treats another major medical problem affecting millions of Americans: Oral anesthetic hangover.
That’s the drooling, slurred speech and inability to sip…
