Tommy McGloin has likely made your life easier. As the head of MapQuest and Moviefone, he helped provide directions and movie information to millions. Now, as the head of Xoova.com, he's looking to make finding a good doctor easier for all of us. In this interview, McGloin talks about striking...
Just about everyone has their own set of beefs with the U.S. healthcare system. Some start with the number of folks who go without healthcare, usually with no choice in the matter -- that's some 47 million people right there. Escalating costs are another huge concern: Not only do Americans...
Now that Google has finally launched its long-awaited Google Health service, it's hard not to sense a kind of boredom across the blogosphere. So much has been written about the service in advance -- including a fair amount by yours truly -- that there's probably no way the real thing...
Feds intervene in McKesson whistleblower case -- The Justice Department has stepped into a private whistleblower lawsuit against medical-product supplier McKesson. The suit alleges that McKesson and nursing-home operator Golden Living defrauded Medicare through a sham supplier of durable medical equipment. [Source: Modern Healthcare] WellCare employee pleads...
Lack the time or patience to plow through the just-concluded three-part, 5,000-word-plus LA Times series on what's wrong with the health-insurance industry? Allow me to assist with this abbreviated guide to the key ideas and data points in the series, stripped of the touching personal anecdotes, Byzantine...
Three years ago I was 310 pounds, fat and pathetic, with numerous medical problems due to my obesity. I was taking three blood pressure medications and a cholesterol drug, and I used a CPAP machine at night so I could breathe. I could barely walk up and down stairs without...
Q What makes a professional bodybuilder different from the rest of us serious amateur bodybuilders? A "Serious" for a professional has a totally different meaning than it does for an amateur, just as i the word "profession" does. You may be a bodybuilder, but your profession might be...
Postpartum depression is a condition in which a mother becomes depressed after her baby is born. Changes in the levels of certain hormones in the woman's body can cause this condition. The stress of having to care for a baby can also contribute to developing postpartum depression. It...
You'd be hard-pressed to find a woman who hasn't complained of fatigue, weight gain, or moodiness during the winter months. But don't be too quick to write off these symptoms as seasonal sluggishness. They may be signs of hypothyroidism--a condition that, if left untreated, can lead to dementia later in...
Ten years ago, Lori*, a speech pathologist in Virginia, was grocery-shopping when she suddenly couldn't breathe or swallow. "My heart was racing and my chest felt tight--I thought I was having a heart attack," says the 42-year-old mother of four. The symptoms lasted several minutes before finally letting up. Lori...
BOSTON AP -- There were 124 passengers on Northwest Airlines Flight 59 when it left the Netherlands. There were 125 when it landed in Boston. Phil Orlandella, a spokesman for Logan International Airport, says a woman went into labor and gave birth to an apparently healthy baby...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] There's a good chance that you've never heard of vitamin D, but many doctors know of it, and they want you and your friends to consume more of it. The American Academy of Pediatrics is recommending that kids of all ages get double the previously recommended...
Last month on shape.com, we asked you: 27% YES "You're more likely to develop diabetes and high blood pressure if you don't work out, which means more trips to the doctor." KELLIE WHITEHILL, M.D. CANADA "I'm not sure premiums should...
An innocent victim of an enraged stranger, Miya Rodolfo-Sioson was gunned down and became the only survivor of the University of Iowa shootings on Nov. 1, 1991. Doctoral student Gang Lu, furious that he was denied a dissertation prize, shot and killed five on campus before killing...
CONTRA COSTA -- Members of Contra Costa Health Plan can now find information about pharmacies and more than 1,300 participating doctors through an updated Web site. To view the information, members of the county-sponsored plan should go to contracostahealthplan.org and click on the provider directory on the...
When Virginia Martin was dying, her doctor sat with her for hours "as if he didn't have another case in the world. They talked about everything, and he answered all her questions," remembers daughter Cathleen Frome. Her family took her home to die, and although she struggled...
EL ARISH, Egypt -- Egyptian ambulances have already brought 43 wounded Palestinians from Gaza to this southern city's general hospital, with 15 of them needing respirators to keep them alive, said Dr. Muhammad al-Gabr, who has been trying to get them to more sophisticated surgical hospitals in Cairo. ...
Oceanic Research and Recovery Inc.(PINKSHEETS: ORRV), a marine salvage and exploration company, todayannounced that the company has entered into an agreement with Wyatt E.Yeager to assist in all areas of management and operations. Mr. Yeager, formerly of Odyssey Marine Exploration Inc. OMR, brings withhim an academic and professional knowledge of...
PRINCETON, N.J. -- Today, iGuard.org, a free and secure medication monitoring service, registered its one-millionth member just 14 months after its launch last year. iGuard.org's rapid growth highlights the growing trend toward patients taking a more active role in managing their own healthcare. Helping Patients and Physicians ...
SAN DIEGO -- What advances in eye care and eyewear can we expect in 2009 and beyond? The editors of AllAboutVision.com see the following trends and products emerging soon: * Researchers are working on liquid-based lenses for use as implanted contact lenses, cataract surgery lenses and general vision...
