Other Science News

As it turns out, the Russians have meddled in more than simply elections. If their goal is to spread dissent and discord than there can be no more passionate a topic, at least for some, than vaccinations.

As my generations, the Boomers, continue to age our demographic bulge continues its disruptive ways.

In the last few weeks, there have been a number of articles [1] on reducing the length of medical training to help ease the physician shortage.

While everything that's written these days is geared towards the internet and the online world, I frequently find it interesting to compare a particular article to its version in print.

I like comedy news host John Oliver. He was among the top nine funniest guys in the first season of "Community" and he even won an Emmy when Jon Stewart made the jokes of Oliver's colleagues sound hilarious.

As much as I have loved and quietly chuckled over the many media headlines (and social media commentary) this week about a new study suggesting female patients with heart attack

When you practice medicine, you are often tethered to your smartphone.

The U.S. electricity grid is hard to defend because of its enormous size and heavy dependency on digital communication and computerized control software.

The US Preventative Care Task Force (USPCTF) indicated today that an electrocardiogram, an EKG, is not an ineffective screening tool for atrial fibrillation – a disorder of the heart’s rhythm.

It is time to question the boondoggle that is and will be the implementation of the World Health Organization-generated International Classification of Diseases, Eleventh Revision (