The doctor suggests opting for a treatment that is better for the environment. How do patients react to this? Doctors and ...

According to WSJ, Dr. Tom Delbanco, a primary-care expert at Harvard Medical School, said that “the more a patient gets involved in their own care, the better the outcomes.” He added that doctors may ...

"Physicians are often accused of providing too much care to elderly patients at the end of life, but there's evidence that these patients also get far too little care before reaching that point," a ...

Dear Eric: I just had my 93rd birthday, so have been on Medicare for some years. But I recently ran across something ...

In the middle of a surgery, a Texas plastic surgeon got a call she never expected—not from a family member, not from a referr­ing physician, but from the patient's insurance provider. The question: ...

Contracts with so-called restrictive covenants are now common in medicine. This is a Kaiser Health News story. When Don Cue developed a bladder infection last fall, he called his longtime urologist’s ...

My Pennsylvania state license to test hearing and dispense hearing aids requires that I stop an appointment and refer that patient out for a medical examination under certain circumstances. Some ...

Running late is also a symptom of wider health-related issues. Australians are living longer with multiple, chronic ...

Physicians are exploring psychedelic-assisted therapy for patients — but federal law still forbids it. A healthcare attorney ...

He went to a nearby emergency clinic, where doctors told him that he was probably constipated. They gave him some laxatives ...