At my London GP surgery, I often face considerable pressure from patients to issue “fit notes” – which sign employees off ...

AI-powered clinical documentation was meant to streamline work at Danish hospitals. But in practice, doctors are spending valuable hours correcting ...

Why are travel nurses brought to P.E.I. when Island nurses are willing to do more shifts? I am aware of such a case ...

NONE of us will be lucky enough to breeze through life without having difficult times that throw us off kilter and leave us ...

Safi Alsebai is a medical student at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock. He's also an ...

After the leucovorin got public attention as a potential autism treatment, families rushed to get it. Many doctors are torn about prescribing an unproven drug but don't want to lose patients' trust.

Just weeks before a federal government deadline aimed at adding nurse practitioners to public health-care plans, some ...

Most groups defended their support for medical intervention. But the Society for Plastic Surgeons broke with the consensus.

Did you know that a seemingly ‘normal’ abdominal pain or back pain may indicate something serious? Kidney stone pain may start as normal body pain, but it may turn severe. This is why early detection ...

GPs were under fire again this last week. Normally, I’m the first to admit that general practice deserves criticism when things go wrong. But this time my immediate reaction was different: GPs need ...

The odds of being struck by lightning in America in a given year are one in 1.2 million. How does the experience reorient a ...

Drinking water is good for our overall wellbeing. Thus, it goes without saying that dehydration can be harmful for our health. Among many diseases or conditions that can be triggered by dehydration, ...