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...penny-pinching savings along to customers in the form of lower premiums, some doctors worry the HMO's dedication to the bottom line could be dangerous for patients, who could inadvertently increase their dosages, resulting in sleep loss and nervousness - or worse. And, according to TIME medical editor Christine Gorman, United's plan could be more grist for the mill of anti-HMO rhetoric. "This takes the power to prescribe out of the doctors' hands and puts it in the bureaucrats' court, all in the name of cost-cutting," says Gorman. "This is exactly the sort of thing that gives...
CHRISTINE GORMAN has covered the medical beat for 15 years, and initiated TIME's personal-health column in 1998. She candidly acknowledges that "nobody likes to talk about colon cancer--including editors. I've written a couple of columns about this second-leading cause of death due to cancer, but I knew that it was unlikely we'd ever put a colon on the cover. Then Katie Couric came along, and I thought that with the combination of her compelling story plus some of the latest research results, we could do a much longer piece on research and treatments that...
...This news should be reassuring to nervous parents," says TIME medical writer Christine Gorman. Pediatricians may not need to be reassured: While some parents took last year's results very much to heart, effectively banishing light from their sleeping children's rooms, doctors had not been particularly impressed with the data. "Some pediatricians have mentioned it to their patients' parents, but there hasn't been an overarching night-light recommendation from the medical establishment," says TIME medical contributor Dr. Ian Smith. "This is something that scientists will discuss with each other, not with parents...
...however, find supplements claiming to cure your impending sleeplessness or panic attacks. Likewise, you'll find products that "maintain memory function," but nothing that claims to reverse serious memory loss. And even though some products' claims can make those herbs seem awfully tempting, TIME medical writer Christine Gorman warns, "the watchword for consumers is caveat emptor. People have the mistaken belief that there is scientific proof these supplements do what they say they will, while most of the claims are just wishful thinking." And, Gorman adds, as the FDA continues to back away from supplement regulation, the onus falls increasingly...
...take-home message from this study is that women are more susceptible to lung cancer than men," says TIME medical writer Christine Gorman. These results, warns Gorman, should not be interpreted as a green light for women to go ahead and light up, figuring that genetics are predetermined and that resistance is therefore futile. "While we can't do anything about our genes, we can determine whether we smoke or not," Gorman says. "And although this gene is active in women who don't smoke, especially relative to nonsmoking men, it's even more active in women...