Originally published on Common Sense Family Doctor on September 22, 2022.

Five moving memoirs and five more outstanding nonfiction titles comprise this year’s 10th annual list of my favorite health books, listed alphabetically by title below.

Originally posted on Common Sense Family Doctor on February 7, 2022.

Several years ago, during the first Trump administration, I excoriated the then-nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, orthopedic surgeon Tom Price, for his poor understanding of cancer screening.

The appropriateness of screening for hyperlipidemia in children has been debated for years in the medical literature, including the pages of American Family Physician. In 2010, Dr. Robert Gauer wrote an editorial arguing that screening could identify children at risk of developing premature atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) and allow clinicians to counsel these patients about lifestyle modification and to start statin therapy.

Four states voted in yesterday’s election on ballot measures to legalize or regulate marijuana (cannabis).

We are five days away from a very consequential U.S.

Drafted in 1787, the Constitution has been the foundation of the United States’s democratic system for over two hundred years.

Hardly a day passes when people do not accuse national lawmakers of being corrupt and engaging in unethical behavior.