Physicians News Health news for doctors and patients.
By Rhea Go-Coloma Mary, 89, who has a history of heart failure and spinal stenosis, lives at home with her elderly husband. Over the past few ...
Read More »Advance Directives: Improving Patient Care at End-of-Life
Headlines
U.S. Metropolitan Areas Increasingly Dominated by Single Insurance Companies
In an analysis of competition in health insurance markets across the United States, a study conducted by the American Medical Association (AMA) found that in ...
Read More »Social Media Is Harming The Minds Of Our Youth, Right? Maybe Not.
By Natalie Jacewicz It was 1:30 a.m., and Anna was trying to keep her mind off her ex-boyfriend, with whom she had ended a painful ...
Read More »In Oregon, End-of-Life Wishes Are Just A Click Away
By JoNel Aleccia, Kaiser Health News Just four hours earlier, Sallie Cutler had been sharing Mother’s Day lunch with her mom, Alyce Cheatham. Then, that ...
Read More »Doctors to Congress: Stop Blaming Mental Illness and Get Real Gun Reform
In the aftermath of the mass shootings in Las Vegas, Democrats will want to discuss meaningful gun reform while Republicans will say that this is ...
Read More »Heart Device Failure: Medicare Spent $1.5B Over 10 Years To Replace Defective Implants
Medicare paid at least $1.5 billion over a decade to replace seven types of defective heart devices, a government watchdog says. The devices apparently failed ...
Read More »Just After Trump Blamed High Drug Prices On Campaign Cash, Drugmakers Gave More
“The cost of medicine in this country is outrageous,” President Donald Trump said at a rally in Louisville, Ky., two months after his inauguration. He ...
Read More »For suicidal veterans, loneliness is the deadliest enemy
About 20 veterans commit suicide every day. The primary enemy most veterans face after service is not war-related trauma but loneliness, according to a new ...
Read More »