Two new studies and an editorial in Thursday’s New England Journal of Medicine supported gastric-bypass surgery as a way to significantly improve mortality rates in obese people. Such surgery has been performed for quite some time and shown to be effective for weight reduction in morbidly obese patients. But until these studies were completed there […]

One of the questions a lot of westerners have about receiving medical care overseas is “What happens if the doctor makes a mistake?” The worry is that they return home and have complications that won’t be covered by their domestic insurance or Medicare. Well, starting next year if your American doctor makes a mistake Medicare […]

A study released by the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics shows that life expectancy in the U.S., while increasing, has rapidly fallen behind that of many other countries. People in 41 other countries now have longer life expectancies. “Something’s wrong here when one of the richest countries in the world, the one that spends […]