Let me begin by reassuring you that this isn’t going to be a grim post. But it begins in an area people are uncomfortable with. We all must die, yet this is one inevitability that almost nobody feels comfortable talking about. That includes doctors and nurses, as was discovered in a newly published study from…

Anyone who has admired President Obama’s idealism all along should come away inspired by the high-mindedness of his “Arab spring” speech. It served to reassure his liberal base that he wasn’t solely continuing the Bush policy in the Middle East (i.e., kill every terrorist, ignore human rights, let Israel drift, keep the oil flowing). It…

Visualization is the courtesy of TheVisualMD.com Brought to you by Deepak Chopra, MD, Alexander Tsiaras, and TheVisualMD.com Attention all parents of adolescents: Does your teen get at least 60 minutes of exercise every day (1)? In an age when kids can conduct their social life by text message, working out nothing but their thumbs, motivating…

A few weeks ago the highly publicized atheist Christopher Hitchens wrote a letter to an annual convention of atheists justifying his position. Hitchens has based his career on being a gadfly, and he’s an articulate, combative one who is widely read and noticed. Along with many others, I wondered how he would respond to the…

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