MEDPAGE's KevinMD.com Varun Verma, MD | Physician | May 9, 2018 We had no choice in becoming the “crazy” family that left a hospital against medical advice. Our four-day-old daughter was completely helpless, her condition deteriorating and the staff was ignoring [...]
Children should do chores. That’s a controversial premise, though not everyone will admit it. A few parents will declare outright that their children are “too busy for chores” or that “their job is school.” Many more of us assign chores, or [...]
Consumers frustrated by high costs are bypassing the bureaucracy with patchwork When their son Sky was born four years ago, Lindsie and Chris Bergevin were hit with a big surprise: $7,000 in bills for the birth that their health plan didn’t [...]
MEDPAGE TODAY by Heath McAnally, MD August 30, 2018 "Do you guys apply whale blubber poultices frozen or heat them up first?" I'm always asked silly questions like that after my colleagues find out I'm from the last frontier -- Alaska. [...]
Look into my eyes. The phrase calls to mind images of a psychotherapist swinging a pocket watch. Or maybe you picture Catherine Keener in the film Get Out, tapping her teacup and sending an unwilling man into a state of hypnotic [...]
TIME Health By Jamie Ducharme August 31, 2018 One in 10 U.S. children has been diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to the latest federal data. The findings, which were published Friday in JAMA Network Open, suggest that ADHD — which is [...]
TIME Health By Jamie Ducharme July 18, 2018 New research says there may be consequences for teenagers growing up in the social media generation. Though it could not prove causation, a new study, published Tuesday in JAMA, found an association between [...]
McKnight's Long-Term Care News August 13, 2018 My alarm alerted at 8:00 a.m. CT on a Sunday in April. I had a flight to catch so I could be in Baltimore for a work meeting. I turned off my alarm and [...]
TIME Health By Jamie Ducharme August 13, 2018 Studies suggest that feeling younger may actually help you live to be older. Now, new research points to a way to keep that youthful state of mind, at least for elderly adults: feel [...]
TIME Health By Alice Park July 26, 2018 There hasn’t been much good news lately on the Alzheimer’s drug front, with a number of companies either abandoning their Alzheimer’s research efforts or stopping studies of experimental medications. Over the summer, Eli [...]