Gay and Lesbian Medical Association Healthcare Equality Index - “a joint project of GLMA and the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. The HEI provides a quality indicator for healthcare related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, beginning with the hospital industry. The survey foc...

Biotech, obesity, Life Sciences Luke Timmerman wrote: Fen-phen was the wonder drug for weight loss in the 1990s, until it was found to damage heart valves and yanked off the market. Now the folks at San Diego-based Arena Pharmaceuticals are eagerly waiting clinical trial results that will show wheth...

I hear that Michael Moore is rounding up his nitty boys to ward off any appointment of CNN's Sanjay Gupta as Surgeon General. For a long time I did not know whether the Surgeon General was like Betty Crocker or a real life person. I did finally get my head straight on that. Now after learning they a...

I have to say, I don’t have an overwhelming positive or negative about the possibility of Dr. Sanjay Gupta as Surgeon General, although I don’t quite have the nice and solid, well-thought-out reasons I like to have for things. I would tend to prefer a person with a public health backgrou...

Reactions to the likely appointment of Dr. Sanjay Gupta as America's Next Top Doctor from Media Consortium writers, and more, in this week's Pulse. Personally, I'm skeptical of this appointment, but I'm willing to be convinced. It's more a matter of priorities than anything else. Obama is looking fo...

Hey Obama waited until the last minute to pick a surgeon general, the government’s top doctor! SHIT SHIT SHIT who should he pick?? Uh uh uhhhhhh… quick, without even thinking: name a famous real-life teevee doctor! Him? Sure, fine, whatever, he can run America’s doctors. This fine ...

Barack Obama wants to appoint tee-vee doctor Sanjay Gupta of CNN as our new Surgeon General. What the hell is this, really? "Gupta has told administration officials that he wants the job, and the final vetting process is under way. He has asked for a few days to figure out the financial and logistic...