Angie's List has plans to let consumers rate their health care providers. The 12-year-old Indianapolis-based company maintains lists of consumer ratings for all kinds of local businesses and services. According to a company press release, the 600,000 list members have been asking for years to add health care providers, hospitals and insurers to ...

ADVANCE editors know a lot, but apparently we don't know everything. (What else is new?) We got an e-mail message last week from an NP protesting an ad in our March print edition. (You might have trouble viewing the ad if you're not a subscriber to ADVANCE.) The ad from the State of New York Department of Public Health urges health care ...

Have you all been watching AMC's Mad Men, the TV series about a Madison Avenue advertising firm in 1960? The premise explores the lofty question of how we create truth — and sell falsehood. We follow the power of sex, ethnicity and money through each episode. The women wear bullet bras, and the men swill bourbon from bottles kept in their desks. ...

It happened again. Another teenager has demonstrated a show of violence that leaves everyone wondering, ''How could this happen?'' The details, as I'm sure most of us know already, are outlined here. My concern is that we will soon become complacent and accept this act of violence as part of our world; we will no longer feel that we can change ...

I have never met Megan Petock. She contacted me one day and asked if ADVANCE would be interested in periodic articles on her experiences as a volunteer for a year on the Mercy Ships. The hospital ship Megan, 24, was serving on would be docked in Liberia. She said she was also writing a blog of her experiences. Since that first contact, Megan has ...