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The decision by the Italian Parliament to drop mandatory vaccinations for children entering school has provoked numerous commentaries.

While the exact wording remains an open debate, the phrase "youth is wasted on the young" is largely attributable to George Bernard Shaw, the prodigious Irish playwright.

Neil Sedaka once noted that breaking up is hard to do. Even harder, it seems, is doing good science. Why?

A male physician in Texas, Gary Tigges, MD, faced a rude awakening when comments he believed would remain priv

The headline read, "Dental care before cancer surgery might be good idea." 

You may have recently read about a teacher who was hospitalized and treated in Texas with four stents for an often fatal type of heart attack.

Dr. Wells, my colleague and friend, and I frequently disagree about medical privacy issues.

For those who consider themselves to be body conscious, and are at ease with technology taking a very close look at their physiques to help improve appearances, there's a new, eye-opening device to consider.

The push to first medicalize (30 states) and then legalize for recreation (eight states and the District of Columbia), the use of marijuana is well underway.

Winston Churchill once described Russia as "a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma." Today, Russia is far less complicated but still perplexing.