Kidney disease is prevalent in the U.S, posing huge health risks at enormous cost, according to a...
Health conditions
Delirium common for older adults in hospital
According to the American Delirium Society, seven million hospitalized adults experience delirium...
Does your hospital have enough nurses?
Nurses represent the largest health profession in the United States. But, we have been experiencing...
Shared decision-making about health care can mean greater...
Over the last several years, an increasing number of doctors are helping patients make informed...
Medicare covers depression screenings
Depression can be crippling, disrupting people’s daily lives and normal functioning. But it...
Can Parkinson’s disease be treated?
Parkinson’s disease is a type of movement disorder affecting about 1 million people who are...
Spying on cancer
What if a new technology could detect aggressive cancer cells, effectively spying on cancer...
Should we treat aging as a disease?
Experts disagree as to whether aging is simply a natural process or we should treat it as a...
New JAMA study reveals exercise can reduce likelihood of...
There is all kinds of advice to help ensure we can live independently in later life. A new JAMA...
The benefits of shared doctor appointments
Many years ago, I heard a primary care doctor explain his solution to the minimal time he had to...