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Health Care
A murderous disease was ravaging the south in 1914. Then one brave and determined doctor discovered the cure — and nobody believed him.
Sylvester Graham’s preposterous theories about food and health inadvertently created the American diet-fad industry.
In 1 Timothy, Paul advises his young disciple: “Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and for thine often [i.e., common] infirmities.” It might amuse Paul to learn that, after nearly 2000 years, the United States government finally agrees
An interview with Bill and Hillary Clinton
On a busy Wednesday morning last August, President and Mrs. Clinton found an hour to speak with me in the Oval Office of the White House.
As modern medicine has grown ever more powerful, our ways of providing it and paying for it have gotten ever-more-wasteful, unaffordable, and unfair. Here is an explanation and a possible first step toward a solution.
Perhaps the most astonishing thing about modern medicine is just how very, very modern it is. Ninety percent of the medicine being practiced today did not exist in 1950.
Americans have never been so healthy, thanks to advances in medical technology and research. Now we have to learn to deal with the staggering costs.
Had Franklin D. Roosevelt not been so conservative, we might have had national health insurance forty years ago
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