Ray Werntz, president of the Consumer Health Education Council in Washington, thinks openness is the base of a good doctor-patient relationship. "Consumers can go online when selecting a PCP and ...

Technology is changing how physicians think about assessing patients, and in turn, how patients expect to be able to measure ...

Consumer-driven plans were introduced ... to increase when participants have the patient education resources they need to compare and shop for health care based on quality and cost.

What consumers might not realize ... authority granted it by the industry-friendly 1994 Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA). As a result, the supplement marketplace is not as ...

Closing the gap between monitoring, awareness, and diagnosis at one end, and education, treatment, and prevention at the other, is the key to consumers getting control of their own health ...