Journal of Medicine - Ardis Hoven is an HIV specialist-based in Lexington, Ky. who, last month, became president-elect of the American Medical Association. Late last week, she learned of the Supreme Court decision the same way the rest of us did: from TV.

Journal of Medicine - “I have had some bitter disappointments as president,” Harry S. Truman wrote in his memoirs, “but the one that has troubled me most, in a personal way, has been the failure to defeat the organized opposition to a national compulsory health insurance program.” He was just the first in a long line of presidents stymied by health reform. Now Barack Obama has succeeded where his predecessors failed. Or has he?

Journal of Medicine - U.S. health officials are asking safety questions about the first artificial heart valve designed to be implanted without major surgery, ahead of a meeting to consider broadening its use.

Journal of Medicine – CDC officials want to know, and they've set up a pilot program to find out.

The $1.2 million program will offer free rapid HIV tests at pharmacies and in-store clinics in 24 cities and rural communities, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Tuesday.