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To Scan or Not to Scan: Largest Study to Date Links Childhood CTs to Increased Cancer Risk
CT scans can reveal a remarkable amount of useful medical information, but more studies underscore the need to balance the benefits of that knowledge with the...
Doctors’ Words Influence End-of-Life Decisions Made By Patients’ Families
Making the decision to approve heroic measures to save a loved one's life can be fraught with emotion, so anxious family members tend to turn to the doctor for...
Majority of Doctors Do Not Follow Treatment Guidelines For ADHD
More than 90% of pediatric specialists who diagnose and manage ADHD in preschoolers do not follow the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) clinical treatment...
Doctors: All Boston Bomb Patients Likely to Live
In a glimmer of good news after last week's tragedy, all of the more than 180 people injured in the Boston Marathon blasts who made it to a hospital alive now...
Transit Officer Still Critical After Shootout
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Doctors say the Boston transit police officer wounded in a shootout with the marathon bombing suspects had lost nearly all his blood and...
Doctors Go Shopping: Price Comparisons Lead MDs to Lower Testing Costs
It's a basic tenet of smart shopping -- compare prices so you can find the best deal. Doctors, however, are often in the dark about what medical tests cost. In...
Doctors Not Informed of Drug Side Effects During Sales Visits
Even though promotional drug meetings are one of the most common ways doctors find out about new medications, a new study shows they're not getting all the...
If Your Doctor is Healthy, You Probably Are Too
To get their patients up to date on their vaccines and screenings, doctors should make sure they get health checkups themselves. Actions, it seems, do speak...
Study Reports Success in Discouraging Elective Pre-Term Deliveries
To discourage planned early deliveries, hospitals are banning moms from scheduling births before 39 weeks without a medical reason. And it's working. Several...
Spin Doctors
Mammograms help you live longer. Or wait; they may not. So discuss the issue with your doctor and decide what's best for you--if you can figure out what that is...
Fewer Hours for Doctors-in-Training Leading To More Mistakes
Giving residents less time on duty and more time to sleep was supposed to lead to fewer medical errors. But the latest research shows that's not the case. What's...
One Third Of Doctors Admit to Overlooking Electronic Test Results
It turns out that electronic medical test results are a lot like email: many get lost in the digital shuffle. Researchers from the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans...
Did Israeli Doctors Try to Forcibly Sterilize Ethiopian Immigrants?
The Israeli Health Minister has announced an investigation into reports that Ethiopian immigrant women have been injected with contraceptives for years without...
The Kindest Cut: How One Hospital Lowered Costs by Making Doctors More Budget Conscious
To lower healthcare costs, it helps for doctors to know what medical services and supplies cost
Doctors’ Advice About Obesity: It’s Personal
Doctors' biases may influence how they care for their obese patients.
Attackers Kill Three North Korean Doctors in Nigeria
Assailants in northeastern Nigeria killed three North Korean doctors, beheading one of the physicians, in the latest attack on health workers in a nation under...
Can Doctors Feel Their Patients’ Pain?
A study shows physicians may care more than you think about their patients' pain.In spite of studies showing that the relationship between a doctor and patient...
Doctors’ Disorders
The Department of Veterans Affairs can’t decide on the right yardstick to ensure its 7,000 doctors are pulling their weight. The agency has been squabbling about...
Is the Medical Community Failing Breastfeeding Moms?
The problem isn’t free formula samples at hospitals, but a lack of trained professional help for women with serious breastfeeding problems.
Waste or Haste? Electronic Health Record Payments Under Scrutiny
A new critical report from the Inspector General of Health and Human Services shows just how difficult it is for the feds to move fast on spending programs and...
