Welcome to The Opener, where every weekday morning you’ll get a fresh, topical column to start your day from one of SI.com’s MLB writers. The Great Cleanup has begun. In advance of an MLB crackdown on ...

Too often as an oncologist, I have approached the gates of death with one of my patients. When a patient’s death is approaching, I can often see its coming shadow in a tint of the skin, a spike in ...

A growing trend among doctors might make you scared to seek medical attention for serious issues. It's called "drive-by doctoring" but instead of hurting you physically, it goes after your wallet. It ...

A day after Clay Buchholz became baseball's first six-game winner, one analyst is accusing the Boston Red Sox pitcher of doctoring baseballs. Dirk Hayhurst with Sportsnet — a former pitcher, current ...

Sometimes I worry about where technology is leading the healthcare profession. It is not just the distraction of white screens and electronic health records. These are bad, terrible, in fact. The ...

It wouldn’t be baseball in October without one of the game’s annual rituals: Social-media sleuths deciding that a Major League Baseball player is cheating in the postseason. Videos have been ...