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New Cancer Data Spark Outcry From Patient Advocates A recent rise in the number of men diagnosed with prostate cancer has fanned resentment among patient advocates, who say their concerns have gone unheeded.
News, January 26, 2023
Don't Cross the Friends Line With Patients While most physicians' organizations advise against befriending patients, doctors walk a fine line between providing warm, empathic care and hanging out with them.
News, January 26, 2023
Life After 50: If You Have Questions, These Experts Have Answers For the last three decades, the Health and Retirement Study has been tracking Americans as they prepare to leave the workforce and beyond.
News, January 25, 2023
Q&A With Long COVID Patient, Researcher: Treatments Lagging The co-author of a new study on long COVID is also a long COVID patient. She shares her story as a patient and of her work to study its origins, what we know, and what we need to do.
News, January 25, 2023
Does EPA Lower CV Risk? REDUCE-IT Revisited After years of controversy, both skeptics and proponents of the REDUCE-IT study findings agree that a new trial may be desirable, but unlikely to happen.
News, January 11, 2023
What Cancer Patients Should Consider When Picking a Health Plan Open enrollment in the ACA exchange is ending soon, but there's still time to pick a health plan for 2023. Although the process can be particularly daunting for those with cancer, these tips may help.
News, January 11, 2023
Physician Writes Play About His Conviction for Euthanasia An Argentine physician's decision to help a patient die with dignity became a source of personal turmoil and inspiration.
News, January 03, 2023
Cervical Cancer Rise in White Women: A 'Canary in the Coal Mine' Recent findings that cervical cancer is rising more rapidly in White women than Black women may flag much broader failures in US healthcare, say researchers.
News, January 03, 2023
Inside the Secret Mission to Safeguard Prized Medical Texts Concerned about the threat of Nazi incursions, the US Army Medical Library in 1942 moved the nation's most prized possessions in a cloak-and-dagger operation.
News, December 21, 2022
Europe Tackles Late HIV Head-on Cases of late HIV might be averted if multi-prong strategies are implemented, including redefining the category for better monitoring.
News, December 21, 2022
Benefits of Hospital-at-Home Clear, Future Is Less Certain Hospital-at-home programs lower costs and produce better outcomes, but their future may be in jeopardy once the pandemic emergency expires.
News, December 20, 2022
AI Takes Root in Primary Care. First Stop: Diabetic Retinopathy Within seconds, artificial intelligence algorithms are diagnosing a complication of diabetes that can lead to blindness.
News, December 15, 2022
Cancer Patients Struggle to Access Psilocybin Before They Die The legal fight to expand access to psilocybin has been gaining momentum in the US and Canada. Dying patients are leading the charge. But some remain concerned about the broader reach.
News, December 13, 2022
Preventive Care Lacking for Disabled Patients The United States does not have comprehensive guidance for providing preventive care to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. That should change, experts said.
News, December 12, 2022
How This MD Beats Sleep Deprivation Fatigue and short sleep may be unavoidable in medical practice, but these physician-tested methods can help you keep working at a high level.
News, December 08, 2022
Mind the Geriatrician Gap The number of aging specialists is shrinking as the aging population surges.
News, December 07, 2022
First-Generation Students Face Roadblocks in Medicine The first in their families to graduate from college, first-gen students are often impeded by a medical school pipeline that's not designed to support them.
News, December 06, 2022
New Melting Hydrogel Could Treat Burns Faster, With Less Pain This hybrid hydrogel dissolves from solid to liquid in minutes, potentially eliminating tedious and painful detriments.
News, December 05, 2022
History of the FDA: An Oncologist Gives an Inside Look In his new book, Mikkael Sekeres, MD, reflects on the history of the FDA and how the agency regulates drug approvals.
News, December 01, 2022
'Something Good After Tragic Loss': Donating Brain Cancer Tissue Families of children with brain cancer are often unaware of the option of postmortem tissue donation, and many have expressed resentment that they had not been informed.
News, November 28, 2022

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