Is there a link between cell phone use and brain tumors? Some researchers think it's possible. PITTSBURGH -- The head of a prominent cancer research institute issued an unprecedented warning to his faculty and staff Wednesday: Limit cell phone use because of the possible risk of cancer. The warning from Dr. Ronald B. Herberman, director of ...

The Windsor Star published an article on July 9 about PAs in Ontario. Both are foreign-trained medical graduates from Pakistan. An Ontario government strategy to boost the province's health care resources has helped Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital attract two foreign-trained medical graduates who have taken on a unique role in patient care. Shehla ...

Physicians for a National Health Program has a relatively new blog. Link PAs for Health Freedom also has a blog. Link

Salon.com has a piece today on the shortage of primary care physicians. It's a pretty good summary of a bleak situation. Just as the U.S. financial gurus failed to acknowledge the seriousness of our present credit crisis, today's politicians are avoiding what promises to be a similar catastrophe in healthcare -- the availability of ...

Army medic Joe Dwyer was a hero during the Iraq War.  During the first week of the war in Iraq, a Military Times photographer captured the arresting image of Army Spc. Joseph Patrick Dwyer as he raced through a battle zone clutching a tiny Iraqi boy named Ali. The photo was hailed as a portrait of the heart behind the U.S. military machine, ...

The New York Times reports on an expansion of health care options in Europe. PARIS — People living within the European Union will be able to receive most health care treatment anywhere in the 27-nation bloc without getting prior authorization if a long-awaited proposal published on Wednesday becomes law. Link

Now that a video of a New York woman's unnoticed death in a hospital waiting room has become an Internet sensation, people are shocked—SHOCKED!—that something like this could happen. Where have these people been? The American College of Emergency Physicians has been screaming from the rooftops about the problems in this country's ...

AMA president Nancy Nielsen recorded a video response to the current Medicare fee crisis. The video is on the AMA home page. The AMA has more information on Medicare at www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/14332.html Link

Beets are No. 1, according to the New York Times. Beets link On a related note, I liked this press release from the American Institute of Cancer Research on the ''season's bounty of cancer-protective produce.'' WASHINGTON, DC -- This summer, with food prices rising, experts at the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) are ...

From the ADVANCE for NPs blog: A woman comes in to see you about migraines. You take a history, you spend time getting to know her, you treat her to the best of your ability. But what would you do if you found out she was hired to ''fake'' her illness to check up on your work? This is what USA Today reports is happening in hospitals and health ...