By Michelle Andrews  Kaiser Health News Should doctors be able to ask patients or patients’ parents whether they own a gun? What about health insurers, ...

By Ramsey Dallal, MD, FACS The public’s appreciation of the dangers of obesity may have expanded recently, but unfortunately, Americans’ waistlines have continued to expand, ...

By Michelle Andrews With the passage of a ballot initiative this month, Massachusetts became the latest state to allow the use of marijuana for medical purposes, joining 17 others and ...

By Shefali S. Kulkarni The game of football isn’t played without its share of injuries. Look at just one of yesterday’s marquee games: The contest ...

By Michael Calahan Teaching hospitals and health care entities with faculty practices that host residency programs have long attempted to balance proficient, high quality resident ...

By Ankita Rao, KHN U.S. doctors are no longer the laggards when it comes to using health information technology in their practices. But they are ...

By David B. Mandell, JD, MBA and Andrew Taylor, CFP® As financial advisors to hundreds of physicians throughout the U.S. and lecturers to thousands more, ...

By Sarah A. Parker, Software Advice There are many challenges that come with being a health care professional. However, there are a number of difficulties ...

Physicians, medical practices, and hospitals now have an educational resource to help educate themselves in the ongoing battle against pill scammers – also known as ...

By Alvin Tran While applying to medical school as a college student, Drew Lee did what many of his fellow “premeds” were doing at the time – ...