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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 (

Results of a new study released this week about soccer, and the effects that "heading" the ball has on the brain, delivered one key takeaway message: women's brain matter appears to be more sensitive than men's.

Patients with limited financial resources often have difficulties getting to their physician and hospital appointments.

Alan Alda has Parkinson's disease. Just like that, the well-known actor disclosed his condition for the first time Tuesday on national TV. He did not appear defeated, depressed or morose. In fact, just the opposite.

As the light of the day grows shorter, and a bit more yellow, one can sense both the coming of fall and winter and the migrations that these changes invoke.

The humanities are in big trouble. That's the conclusion drawn by Benjamin Schmidt, an Assistant Professor of History at Northeastern University. He has the data to back it up.