6 things wrong with hospital medicine DAVID M. MITCHELL, MD, PHD | PHYSICIAN | SEPTEMBER 10, 2018 In 2002, when I began my first hospitalist job, I was a dyed-in-the-wool hospital medicine convert, convinced that the transfer of inpatient care to true specialists in hospital [...]
BY JAMIE DUCHARME UPDATED: APRIL 17, 2019 10:08 AM ET | ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: MARCH 26, 2019 Officials in New York’s Rockland County are banning people who have been diagnosed with measles out of public places and keeping improperly vaccinated children out of [...]
ERIN MCADAMS, MD | PHYSICIAN | APRIL 8, 2019 Work-life balance is hard, and that’s true for so many career options both in and out of the medical field. The topic is something that you consider as you choose a career path. It’s something that [...]
KevinMD Plus: Mar 30, 2019 10 things I’ve learned 10 years after I finished medical school 1. Our health care system is broken, and there isn’t going to be an easy way out. Costs are too high and our outcomes [...]
BY ALICE PARK MARCH 18, 2019 Experts have issued a new set of guidelines on the best ways to prevent first heart attacks, strokes and heart failure — and for the first time, they focus squarely on the patient. The new guidelines [...]
BY AMANDA MACMILLAN MARCH 25, 2019 It’s hardly news that the gastrointestinal tract is important to human health: It transports food from the mouth to the stomach, converts it into absorbable nutrients and stored energy, and shuttles waste back out of the body. If [...]
BY JAMIE DUCHARME AND KATIE REILLY MARCH 25, 2019 A pair of recent suicide deaths in Parkland, Fla., serve as a stark reminder of the lingering effects of trauma — and underscore the importance of providing long-term support to those who are living with [...]
BY BILLY PERRIGO MARCH 25, 2019 A California-based avocado grower has issued a recall of avocados sent to at least six U.S. states over fears they could be contaminated by potentially fatal bacteria. Henry Avocado said Saturday it was concerned the [...]
BY JAMIE DUCHARME 8:27 AM EDT The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants to require mammogram providers to tell women if they have a common risk factor for breast cancer. The proposal, released Wednesday, would be the FDA’s first update to mammography [...]