| Web Tool to Check Heart Risk Is Doubted Critics of a calculator intended for pencil-and-paper users raise questions about the drug industry’s motives in promoting a gauge that shifts more people into higher-risk groups. feeds.nytimes.com |
$93,000 cancer drug: How much are a few months of life worth? Cancer patients, brace yourselves. Many new drug treatments cost nearly $100,000 a year, sparking fresh debate about how much a few months more ... rssfeeds.usatoday.com |
Hospitals told to come clean about their infection rates Hospitals with high levels of infection from E.Coli and other deadly bugs are to be named and shamed by the Government. telegraph.co.uk |
Cyberspace can be good for your health The internet and mobile phones will be able to transform patients' treatments, says Martha Lane Fox. telegraph.co.uk |
Essay: Why Sisterly Chats Make People Happier The key to why having sisters makes people happier — men as well as women — may lie not in the kind of talk they exchange but in the fact of talk. feeds.nytimes.com |