Taking the Pulse: Skyrocketing Medical Costs
Even for those who have health insurance, the skyrocketing cost of medical care presents an enormous challenge. Many health organizations refuse to cover the cost of procedures doctors consider necessary and, increasingly, the burden for paying the ...
Taking the Pulse: Medical Ethics and Morality
Whether it's a patient's so-called "right-to-die," or the pitfalls of genetic engineering, many medical questions and issues extend into the slippery realm of medical ethics and morality. One of the most basic questions concerns the physician's obli...
Taking the Pulse: AIDS Walk
The purpose of AIDS Walk is to support the work being done by community-based organizations, like AIDS Project Los Angeles. These are groups that provide an array of HIV/AIDS-related services for individuals and families, including home health care,...
Taking the Pulse: AIDS: The Battle at Home and Abroad
One of the most critical breakthroughs in medicine was the ability to test for and detect the presence of HIV without having to wait for the onset of physical symptoms. And there have been remarkable strides in the development of drugs used in the f...
Taking the Pulse: Managed Care
Many Americans say they don't trust managed care because they believe it is set up to simply make money for insurance companies, rather than provide people with adequate health care.
Taking the Pulse: Health Care Outside the United States
In most industrialized nations outside the United States, universal health care coverage is commonplace and access to treatment is not based on the patient's ability to pay.