The call came in during a busy workday. My comprehensive primary care clinic had been built over a decade of hard work and had a general practice clinic staffed by a very capable former surgeon and several nurse practitioners, as well as a pain management program and an addiction treatment clinic.
An Iowa neurosurgeon who was accused of harming a patient after misplacing a screw has triumphed at trial, defeating a $27 million malpractice claim.
Shortening U.S. medical education can significantly improve U.S. population health. As patients and stakeholders of U.S. health care, we are at crisis levels.
Cardiothoracic surgery often cuts out this little organ as irrelevant. Big mistake, study. Thymectomy carried a substantially increased risk of all-cause mortality and cancer for adults, a "landmark" study showed.
For ages, bad posture has been assumed to cause back pain. Now some physiotherapists are rethinking what we should be doing with our spines.
Air pollution is helping to drive a rise in antibiotic resistance that poses a significant threat to human health worldwide, a global study suggests.
I’m one of those people who’d be living my best life if I slept nine hours a night. Unfortunately, I’m also a person with a hamster wheel in my brain that starts spinning the moment my head hits the pillow.
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