Pain Specialists Pile on CDC Opioid Guidelines Chronic pain patients were left out to dry Sep 05, 2019
Lethal Lung Disease and Biologics: Is There a Link? In systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis, an emerging, distinct complication with high mortality Sep 04, 2019
Death Certificate Project Accuses 64 Calif. Doctors Five surrender licenses after claims of grossly negligent overprescribing; more to come Sep 03, 2019
Big Cuts in LDL Possible With Twice-Yearly Injections siRNA may make for a more convenient lipid-lowering therapy for patients Sep 02, 2019
Risk-Based Thresholds for hs-Troponin I Safely Speed MI Rule-Out HISTORIC suggests benefit to patients, clinicians Sep 01, 2019
Desperate Families Pursue 'N-of-1' Trials for Ultra-Rare Diseases Technology dangles hope of cure -- for those able to pay Aug 21, 2019
Do You Want to Write a Letter of Recommendation That Succeeds? Milton Packer shows how to genuinely help Aug 21, 2019
When Medicare Stops Covering a Test Without Warning Why didn't someone tell me, asks Hans Duvefelt, MD Aug 20, 2019
Unclogging the Complex Tubes of Healthcare A hospital's pneumatic tubes are a good analogy for the healthcare system Aug 18, 2019
Forgot-to-Pee Syndrome Afflicting Millions of Health Care Workers Second leading cause of morbidity in the medical field Aug 15, 2019
Requiring Hospitals to Tell Docs About Admissions Gets Pushback ACOs want access to even more info, while hospitals fear consequences for non-compliance Aug 14, 2019
Should the Elderly Discontinue Statins? The debate goes on, but Kevin Campbell, MD, believes every patient is different Aug 14, 2019 video
Welcome to Jail: Spread-Eagle, Mug Shot, Used Underwear, Doc Appointment A doctor prepares to meet a new inmate Aug 13, 2019
NPs/PAs 'Just as Effective' as Physicians? I Don't Think So We need solutions to the physician shortage, but this one won't fly Aug 08, 2019
FDA Approves First Drug to Treat Medical Burnout Idongivafumab targets and inhibits C-suite peptides Aug 01, 2019
The Five Most Important Words You Can Say to a Patient A technique for good communication Jul 30, 2019
How Medicare Ruined American Healthcare Once government financing entered the picture, the doctor-patient relationship was doomed Jul 29, 2019
Wait, What? Neil Armstrong Died From Botched Surgery!? Hospital paid $6 million to astronaut's family, newly revealed documents showed Jul 25, 2019
Vaping Companies Marketing to Teens, House Panel Told House members urged to take action, but some see public health benefit from e-cigs, too Jul 24, 2019
Where Do Your Med School Tuition Dollars Go? 'Our debt is an amount of money that schools might not actually need' Jul 23, 2019 video
If You Were in Prison, You'd Ask Your Doctor for This Comfort items and the prison system Jul 16, 2019
Hundreds of Trainees in Limbo as Philadelphia Hospital Closes 570 residents, fellows scramble to find new jobs Jul 15, 2019
Suicide Risk in Nurses Higher Than General Population Researchers conduct first national investigation of nurse suicide in decades Jul 12, 2019
Tiny Organic Mercury Spill Did This to Scientistβs Brain A big lesson in lab safety and protocol Jul 11, 2019
Small Cancer Risk With Lung Micronodules Supports classifying small nodules as negative scan result Jul 10, 2019
Entresto Out-of-Pocket Costs Out of Control? Study highlights one reason for "sluggish" uptake Jul 10, 2019
Medicare for All: Would Patients and Physicians Benefit or Lose? Milton Packer issues an urgent call for practitioners to join the debate Jul 10, 2019
Want a Glimpse of Single-Payer Healthcare? Look at Cuba The distinction between single-payer and universal care is critical, says Niran S. Al-Agba, MD Jul 09, 2019
Asthma Specialists Attack Return of Primatene Mist FDA approval process, clinical need questioned in commentary Jul 07, 2019
How Common Are Accutane-Related Psychiatric Events? Difficult to untangle whether increased cases of depression, suicide are related to treatment or acne itself Jul 03, 2019
Opioids Overused in Acute Gout May contribute to opioid crisis -- and other effective therapies are available Jul 03, 2019
60 Years On, Twin/Triplet Study Still Raises Questions One psychiatrist's take on 1960s experiment that separated twins and triplets at birth in the name of science Jul 02, 2019
LAA Occluder PREVAILs in Cost-Effectiveness Costs saved a decade later compared to warfarin Jul 02, 2019
3 Tricks to a Telephone Assessment Yes, you can successfully evaluate patients without visual clues. Here's how Jun 30, 2019