A new study debunks the common assumption that high medical costs are a result of patients demanding more tests and treatments. Researchers analyzed more than 5000 patient-clinician visits and found ...

Credit: Getty Images. Approximately 64% of antibiotics prescribed for Black patients and 58% for Hispanic/LatinX patients were deemed inappropriate by the study authors. Despite efforts to curb the ...

Last week, I got buzzed into a dental-affiliated office via a new security system. "What happened? Why the new system?" I asked. I was told a disgruntled patient entered the office and made racial ...

Representatives from ECMC confirm a patient from their Psychiatric Emergency Program allegedly engaged in inappropriate behavior toward another patient in the same program on Monday. The issue was ...

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The use of five or more medicines — as well as some drugs that could be deemed inappropriate — may put older patients with cancer at a higher risk for complications, such as weakness. Older patients ...

The New Jersey Hospital Association announced a project at two New Jersey hospitals decreased inappropriate emergency department use by Medicaid patients by 47 percent over two and a half years. The ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Of patients with a positive urine culture, 35% had no documented urinary tract infection-related symptoms.

ALL THAT IN A FEW MOMENTS. BEN AND ERIKA. VERY GOOD. THANK YOU, MIKE. ONE OF BOSTON’S LEADING HOSPITALS IS RESPOND, ADDING AFTER A DECISION TO TERMINATE A PROMINENT DOCTOR. YEAH, THAT PHYSICIAN ...

A case study of a patient who experienced inappropriate shocks from her defibrillator is presented in Heart Rhythm Case Reports, an official journal of the Heart Rhythm Society, published by Elsevier.