Finding out which hospitals are best is like “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” Are you tired of seeing conflicting ratings from such once respected sources as Leapfrog, Medicare Compare,...
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Studies have shown that about 5% of autopsies in hospitals in the United States reveal lethal...
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The launch of the iPhone and Android smartphone platforms spurred a boom in medical application...
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One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime, and two-thirds of women...
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Among patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), abdominal pain is a common and frustrating...
Read MoreI’ve been pondering that question ever since this revelation splashed across the Internet. Like most of these groundbreaking discoveries, this one got plenty of media attention. Despite the numerous articles mentioning the...
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Over the past several years, mid-sized and large practices have become more of the norm. More...
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A doctor takes his patients to great new heights—by breaking their legs. National Geographic...
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The well-meaning push to curb opioid prescribing could worsen healthcare for sickle cell patients....
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“Sudden weight loss, profuse sweating … I’m sorry, I’m afraid you’re melting.” ...
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I just found out about an article that appeared in Forbes online 7 months ago. It said that a...
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Each year in the United States, more than 130,000 children younger than age 13 are treated in EDs...
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Exercise-induced bronchoconstriction (EIB) describes the acute airway narrowing that occurs as a...
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About 7 million children in the United States suffer from asthma, and most are typically dependent...
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According to 2010 United States Census data, the number of Asians and Pacific Islanders (APIs) in...
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Heart failure (HF) is the leading cause of hospitalization for people aged 65 and older in the...
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Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Dental Medicine class of 2016 students parody...
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Jerry The Bear is a patient education tool created to teach children with type 1 diabetes how to...
Read MoreA big problem with changing the focus of healthcare in the United States is that hospital chief executive officers (CEOs) are incented to produce profits for their institutions. This chart from Kaiser Health News shows that the...
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It has been largely assumed that healthcare workers (HCWs) take better care of themselves than the...
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