With the recent increase in the cost of things, many people are stressed. They have to decide how to budget among their many [...]

Medicine is often practiced in a paternalistic manner. The physician will make the decision and tell the patient what to do. In many [...]

We have laws prohibiting alcohol and tobacco purchases by minors. They are not 100 percent successful. However, they do create limitations in the [...]

When I first entered the Air Force there was a program that helped pay for civilian medical care for spouses and children. The [...]

When we had field exercises in the Air Force, I had one rule as the Commanding Officer of our people out in the [...]

Last week I talked about neurological zebras. Zebras are rare diagnoses that you never expect to find. However, sometimes you do. Another type [...]

We tend to think of the nervous system as related to muscles and sensation. However, just like any area of the body, symptoms [...]

We still have many people in the country who believe that vaccines are harmful. The question therefore is, what have we seen happen [...]

I often write about the types of psychological defense mechanisms that individuals use to deal with troubling news. One of them originated in [...]

The U.S. Surgeon General recently issued an advisory warning. The process is similar to the advisory issued on cigarette smoking in 1964. Data [...]