Medicines

by Mark Silva "We have not come off the bottom yet,'' Warren Buffett says. Buffett, the multibillionaire oracle from Omaha and informal adviser to President Barack Obama, says the actions that the federal government is taking today raise the "probability'...

by Mark Silva and updated with response This is what President Barack Obama wanted to talk about this week: Health care. The president was attempting to build a sense of momentum for reform, with the House promising a vote by......

by Mark Silva and updated President Barack Obama, attempting to spotlight several "agents of change,'' today announced that he will bestow the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country's highest civilian honor, on a cast of living and deceased figures...

Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer and Orange County Mayor Richard Crotty donned white lab coats and proclaimed Aug. 3 "White Coat Day" in honor of the inaugural class of 40 students at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine. The announcement was...

2003: The seed is planted After a study concludes the region is short on physicians and needs greater access to health care, UCF trustees look into the idea of establishing a medical-education program. Pappachan Kolattukudy, then-director of UCF's...

Alexandra McKinty will not be putting her 13-month-old in line for the swine flu vaccine. Madelyn, she says, has already had too many shots in her short life. And Loretta Jergensen of Parkville is worried that the vaccine wasn't adequately tested, so...

by Noam Levey Taking another step into the abortion debate, the Obama administration today will move to rescind a controversial rule that allows healthcare workers to deny abortion counseling or other family planning services if doing so would violate...

Last week's Biggest Loser was a total letdown -- dragging out for two hours and culminating in a to-be-continued, so we didn't even see who, if anyone, was going home. I don't want to sit through two hours of Biggest......

by Mark Silva Dr. Sanjay Gupta won't be making any White House calls. The television medical reporter and surgeon whose name was floated as a candidate for surgeon general in the Obama administration, has withdrawn from consideration -- says the......

by Mark Silva President Barack Obama, announcing the appointments of Dr. Margaret Hamburg as Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, and Dr. Joshua Sharfstein as the Principal Deputy Commissioner today, also used his weekly Internet and radio...

by Mark Silva We have seen the future, and it is disturbing. The journey of the Tara, a scientific vessel set adrift in the ice packs of the Arctic Ocean, has produced some stunning photography -- the gorgeous work of......

Sounding a bit like the nation's physician, President Barack Obama stuck Wednesday night to standard protocol in addressing the first domestic public-health emergency of his 100-day-old administration. The swine flu outbreak came up right at the start...