Rita Rubin

April 01, 2014

Confirmation of President Obama's nominee for Surgeon General is suspended as the debate over an answer to this question continues.

January 29, 2014

Physicians are no strangers to the pen and have made invaluable contributions to world literature. Here, the story of a 21st-century internist-author who is firmly rooted in both worlds.

December 11, 2013

“My mother was diagnosed with incurable lung cancer. I made a comic strip about it.” The idea: combine the art with the medicine.

October 22, 2013

When it comes to the prostate, most men in this study couldn’t locate it or identify its function. Translation: patients and physicians don’t speak the same language. Clinicians need to be “bilingual” when they’re talking with patients.

October 01, 2013

Discussing care decisions and agreeing on how to go forward is a skill that can be learned-by physicians and patients alike.

September 05, 2013

Emergency contraception is available in drugstore aisles nationwide but the easy access may be at the expense of important family planning education.

July 27, 2013

The financial impact of health care on patients is not benign.

June 26, 2013

Expensive sterile injectables seem to get the most attention, but doctors are also scrambling to find plain-Jane pills that cost pennies apiece.