Your (Dec. 26, Our Opinion) editorial recommending "quick treatment" for "our emergency room crisis" may run the risk of prescribing the wrong medicine. Three of the underlying causes you cited may be better, more quickly and more economically treated by other means. ...more

December 31, 2008

A sobering report released earlier this month by a blue-ribbon panel of emergency physicians concludes the country's emergency care system is in serious condition and under more stress than ever before. ...more

December 26, 2008

New research chronicles the increase in the number of children taking prescription medication to treat common weight-related diseases. ...more

November 12, 2008

Hundreds of times over the past two years, Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority bus drivers have called in sick under a federal law originally meant to protect new moms and those with serious illnesses. ...more

February 8, 2008