If you’re right about your fat friend’s health.

Your assumptions about your fat friend’s health might be frustratingly wrong. But what if they’re right?

We All Want Healthcare To Cost Much Less — But We Are Asking The Wrong Question

Health Insurance: How Does It Work?

Four Questions to Ask About Health Care Reform

We rarely have to ask how car insurance or home insurance work. What is it that makes health insurance so much more complicated — with individual mandates, single…

How do Doctors Get Paid for Healthcare Treatment?

Attack on Complementary Medicine

A group of scientists and doctors who call themselves the “Friends of Science in Medicine” (FSM) are relaunching an attack on complementary medicine. During last week, there was a segment on Channel 9 News in Australia suggesting pharmacies are receiving kickbacks from…

Being Real about Chronic Illness: A Message for Parents Who Are Caregivers.

Sometimes, all you can do…

What, exactly is insulin resistance?

A New Paradigm of Insulin Resistance

One of insulin’s jobs is to help move glucose from the blood into the cells for energy. When blood glucose remains elevated despite normal or high levels of insulin, this is…

The Top Healthcare Industry Challenges in 2017

To You; The One Who Wants To End It All

You don’t know me, but I know you. You can’t see me, but I see you. Today was hard, wasn’t it? Yesterday, too. The day before that was worse, and before that? Before that you can’t even remember when life was worth it.