Administration Signals Doubts About Calculator Permitting Plans Without Hospital Benefits

Senator Orin Hatch – (CC BY-NC 2.0) The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights/Flickr I have ranted in previous posts about an element of consumer fraud that is so rampant in the dietary supplement industry that it seems to be part of the fundamental business model. But …

If your doctor can’t see you now, maybe the nurse practitioner can. Nurse practitioners have long been a reliable backstop for the primary-care-physician shortfall, which is estimated at nearly 21,000 doctors this year and projected to get worse. But easy access to NPs could be tested in coming years. Even though nearly 90 percent of […]

When people say someone had “a good death,” they usually mean that someone was comfortable and not in pain. But what if you could help their final days include the things they treasure — like their favorite song playing, who is at their bedside, even the scent of a candle in the room — so […]