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Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center in the Bronx is among the hospitals most affected by the burden of caring for uninsured immigrants. CreditNicole Bengiveno/The New York Times New York City’s public hospital system is looking at a major cash … Continue reading →

Photo Credit: Evdokimov Maxim / Shutterstock.com Depression presents patients with many management challenges, including the side effects of drug treatments. Antidepressant side effects include photosensitivity, sleep disturbances, and diminished libido, and they are often invasive enough to leave patients seeking alternatives. … Continue reading →

From NYTimes.com By JANE E. BRODY MAY 4, 2015 I recently told my 70s-something walking group that I wanted to write about “retrieval disorder,” our shared problem with remembering names and dates, what we had just read and where, even what we had … Continue reading →

From NYTimes.com Paula Span Gerald J. Hladik was 74 when the day long anticipated by his doctors arrived: His kidneys, damaged years earlier by a viral infection, had lost 85 percent of their function. Time to begin dialysis. But from … Continue reading →

CLEVELAND CLINIC Given the desperate need for primary care docs as health care access expands under the Affordable Care Act and the horde of aging baby boomers requires more hands-on care, a lesser-known form of medical education is taking root … Continue reading →

From Forbes.com The country is in a state of health care denial. Politicians, pundits and executives proudly declare America’s medical care is the best in the world. But it isn’t. The U.S. lags behind other industrialized nations in many important … Continue reading →

By DENISE GRADYFEB. 11, 2015   taken from NYTimes.com However bad you thought smoking was, it’s even worse. A new study adds at least five diseases and 60,000 deaths a year to the toll taken by tobacco in the United … Continue reading →

Meet the new health and medical search in Knowledge Graph. From readwrite.com ADRIANA LEE Google has now made it easier for armchair physicians to find things to freak out about. The tech giant just announced the inclusion of medical information … Continue reading →

Health supplements on display at Walgreens in Times Square in Manhattan. YANA PASKOVA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES By ANAHAD O’CONNOR for NYTimes.com FEBRUARY 3, 2015 The New York State attorney general’s office accused four major retailers on Monday of selling fraudulent … Continue reading →

Eugene Levich, who is moving from New York to Delray Beach, Fla., where he has wintered, worries about leaving his doctors. By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL for NYTimes.com JANUARY 31, 2015 Like many retirees, one couple from upstate New York visit doctors … Continue reading →