People and organizations other than doctors increasingly are assuming power to decide which medications to prescribe or procedures to undertake. More and more, decisions about personal healthcare are no longer made by the treating physicians in consultation with their patients, and based on the doctors' expertise.

Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.

Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.

People and organizations other than doctors increasingly are assuming power to decide which medications to prescribe or procedures to undertake. More and more, decisions about personal healthcare are no longer made by the treating physicians in consultation with their patients, and based on the doctors' expertise.

The Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.

On taking office, Obama promised the 'most transparent' administration in history; yet his record as president has been anything but transparent.

It's not a gun control problem; it's a cultural control problem.