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It's Not Me, It's You: When It's Time to Break Up With Your Doctor 06/16/2015 08:00pm • In medicine, as in love, the longer and deeper a relationship, the more difficult it is to sever ties. With today's physician shortages and narrowed health insurance networks, breaking up with your physician is certainly hard to do, as it involves transferring your medical records and leaving behi This Prescription Can Save Your Life -- and It's Free 06/15/2015 08:00pm • "I feel 20 years younger, doctor!" Maria's face lit up with a big smile, and her expressive eyes became shinier. Maria is wearing a bright purple jacket and a matching hat. Her nose and cheeks are red from the cold outside. She stood up and gave me a hug, and I reflected on her journey... Marie ha Does Chronic Lyme Disease Exist? 06/15/2015 08:00pm • No one could pinpoint why 16-year-old Kelly Eisenhart, an accomplished athlete, was mysteriously deteriorating. Plagued by increasing fatigue, the once-competitive high school athlete could no longer get out of bed and was inexplicably gaining weight. But it wasn't until she became confused on her Know How Law Schools Weigh Undergraduate, Transfer GPAs 06/14/2015 08:00pm • Welcome to the latest installment of Law Admissions Q-and-A, a monthly feature of Law Admissions Lowdown that provides admissions advice to readers who send in questions and admissions profiles. If you have a question about law school, please email me for a chance to be featured next month. Dear Robitussin for Brain Cancer, Part II 06/14/2015 08:00pm • When we last left our 21-year-old hero, he was six months shy of his college graduation and, more or less, given six months to live after a diagnosis of brain cancer. There was a window of roughly two weeks between the discovery of a golf-ball-size mass in my brain on Dec. 29, 1995, and the neuros As HIV Proliferates, Will the Public Good Be Placed Before Politics? 06/14/2015 08:00pm • The tenets of public health are to provide strong programs that protect the community as a whole. These efforts should be unbiased and applicable to the health and safety of the population in total, regardless of special interests or political constituency. In earlier times, this belief was central Life After Colectomy 06/11/2015 08:00pm • For as long as she could, Stephanie Hughes, 29, of Raleigh, North Carolina, delayed having colon surgery. Symptoms from Crohn's disease -- an inflammatory bowel disease that causes abdominal pain, severe diarrhea, fatigue and even malnutrition -- kept getting worse, but she wasn't prepared to live w How to Alleviate Heel Pain 06/10/2015 08:00pm • One morning about 10 years ago, Dr. Amanda Zeller Manley was running from the gym to catch a bus to work when she felt a snap. Her doctor later told her that the thick band of tissue on the underside of her foot that connects the heel to the toes, known as the plantar fascia, had nearly ruptured. "I What Are the Long-Term Effects of Taking Antidepressants? 06/10/2015 08:00pm • Starkly contrasting views took center stage last month in a raging international debate over the long-term use of antidepressants and other psychiatric drugs. In the debate, published in prominent medical journal The BMJ, Denmark-based researcher Peter C. Gøtzsche contended that taking antidepre The Ins and Outs of Cover Letters 06/10/2015 08:00pm • Many people are convinced cover letters are out, but whether you need a cover letter or not depends on the job you're applying to. If you're lucky and have a contact who is willing to pass along your résumé, you probably don't need one. If a job description asks for a letter or states that it's v Swedish scientists say mead may be the key to fight antibiotic-resistant pathogens 06/10/2015 05:05pm • WASHINGTON — Swedish scientists are manufacturing their own mead, an alcoholic beverage made from fermented honey and water, they believe could help fight against antibiotic resistance. Scientists Tobias Olofsson and Alejandra Vasquez have researched bees and their honey for years. In 2014, th Former Army doc accused of drugging trainees, performing unusual procedures 06/10/2015 10:04am • WASHINGTON — A retired Army doctor who now trains thousands of soldiers and medical personnel to treat battlefield wounds faces allegations he gave trainees hypnotic drugs and liquor, directed them to perform unusual medical procedures on one another's genitals and exploited two participants for How a Former Pro Football Player Found Yoga 06/08/2015 08:00pm • For years, former National Football League Pro Bowl linebacker Keith Mitchell won thousands of fans over with his breathtaking tackles. In May, he won CEOs, senators and healthcare leaders over again when he brought his palms together, smiled and said, "Namaste." Mitchell was speaking at the first Follow a Blueprint to a Successful Physician Shadowing Experience 06/08/2015 08:00pm • If you are considering a career in medicine but are uncertain about the day-to-day work life of a physician, consider a shadowing opportunity. Shadowing a clinician can help you make a decision about whether or not you want to even enter a premed curriculum. You'll also have a chance to learn about On Capitol Hill, a Push to Get the Birth Control Pill Over the Counter 06/08/2015 08:00pm • A debate about women's access to birth control is once again brewing in Washington. On Tuesday, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., introduced the Affordability Is Access Act, which would require health insurance companies to cover birth control pills if they are offered in pharmacies without a prescripti