Obama nominee heralded despite 'honorary' titles
When the White House announced Dr. Donald Berwick as President Obama's choice to lead the $800 billion Medicare and Medicaid agency in April, officials hailed his long list of credentials, including...
View ArticleBOOK REVIEW: Looking back on life, medicine
JUST LIKE SOMEONE WITHOUT MENTAL ILLNESS ONLY MORE SO: A MEMOIRBy Mark Vonnegut, M.D.Delacorte, $24, 224 pages"Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So" is Dr. Mark Vonnegut's second stab...
View ArticleNobel-winning immunologist Benacerraf dies at 90
BOSTON (AP) - Baruj Benacerraf, a Venezuela-born immunologist who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, died Tuesday, his family announced. He was 90.He died of pneumonia at his Boston...
View ArticleDo all-female colleges have a place in the US?
PITTSBURGH (AP) - When Chatham University was founded in 1869 under the name Pennsylvania Female College, it was born into a world of furious debate over the role of women's higher education. Would it...
View ArticleHow a patient's 'crazy' request for a new womb made history
STOCKHOLM (AP) - When the young Australian cervical cancer patient learned she had to lose her womb in order to survive, she proposed something audacious to the doctor who was treating her: She asked...
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