Physicians News Health news for doctors and patients.
As superbug outbreaks raised alarm across the country last year, a prominent doctor at a Philadelphia cancer center wrote in a leading medical journal about ...
Read More »Doctor Urges Openness About Superbug Infections, But Omits His Own Hospital
Is The Measles Virus Back For Good?
(HealthDay News) — Is measles really back? That’s the question vexing everyone from pediatricians to policymakers to parents as the outbreak of the dangerous childhood ...
Read More »The Salk Polio Vaccine: ‘Greatest Public Health Experiment in History’
By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter Part two of a two-part series TUESDAY, Dec. 2, 2014 (HealthDay News) — A nationwide trial of an experimental vaccine using ...
Read More »The Salk Polio Vaccine: A Medical Miracle Turns 60
By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter Part one of a two-part series MONDAY, Dec. 1, 2014 (HealthDay News) — Most American parents today can’t fathom the horror ...
Read More »Can all US hospitals safely treat Ebola?
By Marilynn Marchione AP Chief Medical Writer A breach of infection control resulting in a Dallas health worker getting Ebola raises fresh questions about whether ...
Read More »Doctors Prepare U.S. Hospitals to Treat Ebola
By Jeff Cohen, WNPR Dr. Jack Ross is used to seeing potentially lethal viruses, and he is used to putting patients into isolation. Still, Ebola is different. ...
Read More »