Although deprescribing (tapering and withdrawing medicines when risks outweigh potential benefits) is essential to best prescribing practices, it runs counter to patient expectations, medical culture,..
A health plan's ability to offer access to clinicians in primary and specialty care is crucial to ensuring access to care. New research finds that...
Between 2000 and 2014, the mobility rate of younger primary care physicians was approximately double that of older physicians. According to a study of rural...
A new series of clinical decision rules integrating signs, symptoms, and C-reactive protein diagnose acute rhinosinusitis and acute bacterial rhinosinusitis with good accuracy. Researchers developed...
When patients are admitted to the hospital, their connection to their primary care physician is often disrupted, leading to difficult transitions of care, readmissions, higher...
Zebra finches brought up without their fathers don't react to the singing of potential suitors in the same way that female birds usually do, hinting...
Physicians regularly encounter losses: not only the death of patients but also more ambiguous losses, including changes in professional roles, duties, and identity. A family...
In a medical culture that values technical prowess and the ability to make complex clinical decisions, personal reflection can help physicians cultivate their inner lives,...
Credit: Image courtesy of Dr. Leonardo Bonilha and Emilie McKinnon. All rights reserved. Language disturbances (aphasia) are common after stroke and can manifest as difficulty...
Credit: Ben Van Allen, UCSD Cannibalism may be just what the doctor ordered, according to a new study that will be published in American Naturalist...
Credit: QuantIF - LITIS EA 4108 - FR CNRS 3638, Henri Becquerel Cancer Center, Rouen, France RESTON, Va. - Fluorine-18 (18F)-fluoromisonidazole (FMISO) is a positron...
Credit: Northwestern University EVANSTON, Ill. --- A groundbreaking advancement in materials from Northwestern University could potentially help patients requiring stem cell therapies for spinal cord..
In primary care settings, training and support of clinicians has a lasting effect on the proportion of adult patients given an alcohol intervention at nine...
St. George, Utah -- July 10, 2017 -- DxNA LLC, a molecular diagnostics company, today announced the 510(k) submission to the U.S. Food and Drug...
Bottom Line: Scientists have found a single protein--Ptbp2--controls a network of over 200 genes central to how developing sperm move and communicate. The protein works...
