Doctors often spend more time in front of a computer than in front of the patient. How to get your doctor to pay attention.

Not too many decades ago, in the history of medicine, healthcare providers were culled from the ranks of the clergy. These practitioners,...

Once upon a time—and you know when I start with those four words, I’m taking you down a retrospective path—medicine reflected a sacred...

We live in a world of constant, unpredictable, intermittent inattention. We are bludgeoned and bombarded with a tsunami of digital...

A common medical term is sequela. You pronounce it like this: seh-QWEL-uh. And it means the after-effects of a disease. In other words, a...

Damar Hamlin, a remarkable and beloved football player for the Buffalo Bills, suffered a cardiac arrest following what would appear to be...

Photo from Unsplash Prior to the onset of the subzero temperatures here in the upper Midwest, there was a brief reprieve for many...

We humans survived on the grassy plains of East Africa millions of years ago by the power of community. The power of connectedness....

Coal mining is a profoundly dangerous profession. Before there were federally mandated safety measures, these early pioneers were aware...

In the 1939 iconic musical fantasy, Wizard of Oz, Dorothy cradles her little dog Toto when a tornado transports them from her home state...

Let us turn back the clock several million years. We humans survived in small groups of families and clans. We sat around campfires, we...

Here in Lake Woebegone, spring has arrived. Flowers are blooming, grasses growing, farmers are plowing and planting, and we lovingly...

An international chess game is brewing as Russia has positioned more than 100,000 troops close to the border with Ukraine. Any further...

A classic laboratory experiment involving rodents goes something like this. These smart little caged rats quickly figure out if they...

The virus variants affect us all, and our lives hang in the balance Growing up in the murky world of thoroughbred racing on the East...

The most reprinted newspaper editorial in the English language appeared in the September 1897 New York Sun when eight-year-old Virginia...

Our world plummeted down the rabbit hole of chaos in March 2020 when the nightmare of COVID disintegrated our daily lives. With the...

Would You Do This If You Thought You'd Get Cancer? Let us imagine a football stadium. We don’t have to imagine because on any given...

We're playing the same risky game with a deadly pandemic. We know what works. We know how to institute a game-winning strategy, but in...

Troubling times. With COVID we have taken many steps forward toward eradicating this plague, yet now we are taking steps backward as...