As we all gather ’round the Super Bowl snack spread this Sunday, how worried should we be about the health consequences of the party foul known as double dipping? We tackled that question as part of our “Is It True?” video series here... 

Why get a massage? Well, because it feels good, for one thing. But many people also hop on the table with the hope that massage therapy can help promote muscle recovery after a tough workout or provide other benefits. No one has looked closely at what... 

Prostate-Cancer Drug Studies: The results from two trials of experimental drugs for advanced prostate cancer add to recent progress against the disease, the WSJ reports . Medivation’s MDV3100 extended survival by nearly five months in a 1,199-patient... 

A young patient holds Kalydeco, a cystic-fibrosis treatment from Vertex just approved by the FDA. Certain cystic-fibrosis patients will now have an FDA-approved treatment that targets an underlying cause of their disease. But that drug — Kalydeco,... 

Quality-of-life questions are becoming increasingly important in medical care, especially when it comes to helping patients make decisions about treatments, today’s Informed Patient column reports . Since the 1970s, researchers have been using quality-of-life... 

McNeil Oversight Changes: Johnson & Johnson is replacing two company group chairmen who had been charged with turning around the McNeil Consumer Healthcare unit after a series of recalls, the WSJ reports . Patrick Mutchler, charged with overseeing... 

Doctors who need to drop pounds themselves may be less likely to bring up the topic of weight loss with their obese patients, a new study suggests. The study, published in the journal Obesity, covered 498 primary-care physicians. Of them, 47% were normal-weight,... 

What’s standing in the way of the wider spread of health IT? Plenty of things, according to a new report from the Bipartisan Policy Center. The report says boosting use of electronic medical records and other health IT “enjoys bipartisan... 

As per a new study from Northern Illinois University which was conducted by James Burton it is proved that the supervisors who are stressed and who struggle with time pressure voice their frustration of their subordinates or employees. But they do this... 

Roche’s Genomics Bet: Roche’s $6 billion hostile bid for DNA-sequencing company Illumina represents a bet that the technology will filter down from academic and government research centers to doctors’ offices and hospitals, the WSJ...