By Maria Cohut Medical News Today Recent research on the health risks that people undergoing cancer treatment face warns that there is a lack of awareness about the risks that some of these therapies can pose to heart health. Not enough cancer patients are aware of the potential adverse effects of cancer treatment on their heart. […]
Read MoreBy STEPHEN SOUMERAI and KIP SULLIVAN STAT Healthcare Tech Federal programs designed to cut costs and improve health by penalizing doctors and hospitals are failing at an alarming rate. Some of them actually harm patients, and many don’t cut costs. One in particular, the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP), may have caused thousands of deaths instead of preventing them, and probably hasn’t […]
Read MoreMN Medical Association In a case that could have wide-reaching implications for medical practice in Minnesota, the Minnesota Supreme Court issued a ruling on April 17 in the case of Warren v. Dinter holding that the existence of a physician-patient relationship is not a prerequisite for a medical malpractice action. Rather, a person may sue a physician […]
Read MoreAuthors: Mary M. McDermott, MD et al JAMA. 2019;321(17):1715. Each year, approximately 130 million infants are born worldwide, and there were 3.8 million births in the United States in 2017.1 Rates of maternal mortality and adverse pregnancy outcomes in the United States are increasing, and abnormal prepregnancy body mass index (BMI) and abnormal gestational weight gain […]
Read MoreAuthor: Chase Doyle Anesthesiology News Age may be just a number, as the saying goes, but when it comes to patients undergoing open thoracic lobectomy, the higher the number the greater the risk for postoperative urinary retention. In a retrospective review of 38 patients undergoing open lobectomy using patient-, anesthesia- and surgery-specific variables, age was […]
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