A Nation of “Frauds”?

Congress is about to tighten the rules for elderly individuals who use Medicaid to pay for their nursing home care. Medicaid is supposed to be a program to provide medical assistance to the poor, but over the years, middle class elderly have resorted to using the...

The Coming “Functional Food” Mania

The concept of "functional food" is generating lots of excitement in the scientific community…and on Wall Street. There are various definitions of functional food, but generally it refers to food enhanced with vitamins and other types of nutrients....

The Power of Ideology in Health Care

One of the major challenges facing every patient is dealing with the "ideologies" that permeate health care. Ideologies, of course, are supposed to explain all aspects of political, religious, or other major areas of life, and thus are all-encompassing and...