With rising costs, an inundated healthcare system, and limited resources, physicians have been known to ration medical services. According to a recent study, over half of the physicians surveyed reported withholding beneficial clinical services to patients over the past six months, with prescription drugs and MRIs at the top of the restricted list.

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What's the secret to a happy marriage? Hint: it ain't love. Apparently, it's alcohol (P.S. There are so many jokes here...)
A recent study claims couples who drink alcohol together have a happier marital quality over time. Sound too good to be true? It probably is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9bBF9RktAA
 
 

Here’s the story on this preventable problem that plagues the world: Hepatitis is a viral infection of the liver.

Medical practitioners and patients live in “a sea of uncertainty, where the stressful unknown drives us “to seek more information through testing” to increase our certainty. But more data is not necessarily helpful, according to an online report in JAMA Oncology examining the impact of evidence-based recommendations on physician behavior.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released their hospital rankings, and New York isn't happy about being last among 50 states.

The USPSTF reports that the evidence for screening for skin cancer is weak. Some dermatologists are concerned, saying that lack of evidence of benefit doesn't mean there is no benefit. What should a patient think or do?

Yet another cancer has been found in yet another ancient fossil, further relegating claims that 'modern food and trace chemicals cause more cancer' to the dustbin of history.

The "science" surrounding endocrine disruptors is so crazy that, as stores that sell anything that contains a paraben preservative (a so-called estrogen that has probably never harmed anyone) are running like mad to get away from it, a TV supplement huckster is selling a "miracle fat burner" that looks more than a little like ethyl paraben. Welcome to a chemical madhouse.

A blood test for dementia would be great but there are limitations as to what they can tell us about our brains.