For cancer patients, one of the toughest questions can be knowing when it’s time to let go.

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When Howard D. Schultz in 1985 founded the company that would become the wildly successful Starbucks chain, no financial adviser had to tell him that coffee was America’s leading beverage and caffeine its most widely used drug. The millions of customers who flock to Starbucks to order a double espresso, latte or coffee grande attest daily to his assessment of American passions. Although the company might have overestimated consumer willingness to spend up to $4 for a cup of coffee — it recentl…

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Rheumatoid arthritis does not have to mean an end to the things you love.

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Each year hundreds of thousands of Americans, including some 700,000 Medicare recipients, get on a treadmill not for exercise but to try to determine if their hearts are healthy. Tim Russert, the NBC journalist, had such an exam, called an exercise or treadmill stress test, six weeks before he died of a heart attack last month at age 58. His results had been deemed normal, prompting people to question how worthwhile this test could be.

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As with any product used to excess, consumers often wonder about the health consequences of caffeine.

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The exercise stress test has no value unless its findings are interpreted in the context of a person’s other risk factors for heart disease.

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Medpedia Forms Online Medical Encyclopedia Site looking for … EndoNurse -20 hours ago SAN FRANCISCO - The Medpedia Project recently announced that the world's largest collaborative online encyclopedia of medicine, Medpedia, will launch soon.

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Washington Post

A Genetics Pioneer Who Mapped the Inner World Washington Post -Jul 23, 2008 By David Brown Insights from the fully transcribed human genome — those 3 billion letters of DNA — will drive the medical discoveries of the 21st century and probably the 22nd century as well.

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CDC: Foreign-Born Groups In US At Higher TB Risk AHN -Jul 22, 2008 Atlanta, GA (AHN) - Foreign-born immigrants account for more than half of new tuberculosis cases in the US in recent years, according to a study in a major medical journal.

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Voice of America

FDA Inspectors Say Peppers May Be Linked to Salmonella Outbreak Voice of America -Jul 23, 2008 By Paul Sisco US government inspectors searching for the cause of a recent salmonella outbreak have a new lead. Inspectors at the US Food and Drug Administration have linked a Mexican grown jalepeno pepper to the outbreak that has spread through the …

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