Medicine is incredibly ritualistic.

Medicine is still all about treating populations, not people - one-size-fits all treatments and diagnoses.

The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down.

I have had my genome fully sequenced and have learned a great deal about which medications I would respond to and which might or would induce major side effects, along with knowing many medical conditions for which I'm particularly susceptible.

There are estimates that 2 to 3 percent of cancers in the U.S. each year are engendered by exposure to repetitive imaging.

The problem is that it takes physicians so long to accept a radical change. And the lag is unacceptable.

For some men, the inflammation of their arteries is a result of really low good cholesterol.