About half of all people don't take medications like they're supposed to.

The ability to diagnose an imminent heart attack has long been considered the holy grail of cardiovascular medicine.

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

It's infrequent that people are rail thin yet have high blood pressure.

I love information. I can never get enough. I get bored easily.

For diabetes in particular, we know there's a relationship between lack of glucose regulation and complications like blindness and kidney failure. So if you were diabetic and you knew that you could get your glucose in a tight, normal range just by adjusting your lifestyle, wouldn't that be great?

Of course, the medical profession doesn't like D.I.Y. anything.