Last month, a colleague approached me about exploring the role of acupuncture in weight loss.  As a traditional Western medicine physician, I was skeptical about its merits....

Q. Does your office have swine flu vaccine yet? No. Medical providers have not received their shipment of swine flu vaccine yet. We anticipate getting the first shipment in mid-October. The U.S. plans to have 195 million doses of H1N1 (swine flu)...

If you have been up to date with the latest Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) news, you might have heard that Dr. Harald Zur Hausen, a German scientist who discovered the link between HPV and cervical cancer, was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize for Medicine...

M.D.Anderson Tops National Cancer Rankings U. S. News & World Report Releases Annual “Best Hospitals” Survey HOUSTON – For the sixth time in the last eight years, The University of Texas M.D. Cancer Center is the leading hospi...

Soda Taxes Can Help Fund Health Coverage and Prevention Programs, Say Experts Plus, Reducing Consumption Can Help Curb Rising Obesity Rates WASHINGTON—Federal and state governments should levy...

By Loyd Eskildson The bulk of The Murder Business: How The Media Turns Crime Into Entertainment and Subverts Justice (Regnery Press/ 2009) is taken up with Mark Furhman's review of several well-known murder cases, including the media's involvement....

By Thomas Duff I received a copy of the CD Hangisphere from the publicist for Matt Venuti.  I was moderately interested once I visited Venuti's website and heard a clip of the music produced by this odd instrument called the "hang."  Now that I've...

Review By Sonal Kumar “As it turns out, life and death is not a black-and-white issue. There is a gray zone—a faint no-man’s land where you are neither truly dead nor actually alive.” These are the words of physician-journalist Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a...

 By Randall Radic That lil’ ol’ band from Texas – ZZ Top – grinds out a rock-a-billy ballad about a shyster who sold snake-oil over the airwaves.  The shyster’s name was Dr. Curtis Howe Springer.  He was a lovable old rascal with a penchant for...

Kids Pick Review By Shelly Burns Beautiful book! This is the original Nutcracker story that I'm sure many of you are familiar with. I was, through the ballet, but had never read the original story. It is a good one! It is rather long for a children's...