When patients pay the same no matter the health care option they choose, there’s no incentive for them to make judicious ...

If you are a doctor, the odds are that your patients think or do things you don’t agree with. Nearly half of Americans believe at least one health-related conspiracy theory, people routinely lie to ...

Health systems may be overlooking patients' needs in their pursuit for cohesive care, industry leaders said at a Newsweek ...

In May 2023, Joanna Loewenstein MD opened her concierge internal medicine practice in New York City, the first of its kind at Weill Cornell. Growing up in Long Island, Dr. Lowenstein remembers her dad ...

Within the walls of a hospital, privacy is sacred—the intimate details of someone’s body and illness are meant to be as carefully guarded, as quietly delivered, as a sacramental confession. But days ...

LOS ANGELES, June 25 (Reuters) - Nearly two-thirds of patients who started on weight-loss drugs Wegovy or Zepbound last year were still taking them a year later, according to an analysis of U.S.

When the pain kicked in again in February, Lahisha Marquez-Soto held off on going to the hospital for days, until she was struggling to walk out of her college dorm in Carson. Eight days into her stay ...

A Houston doctor has been indicted on charges of falsifying medical records for five patients, making them ineligible to ...

TrumpRx, the Trump administration’s much-anticipated direct-to-consumer drug platform, went live on Thursday. However, it remains to be seen whether direct-to-consumer channels will actually result in ...

Community is a nurse-led initiative in UCLA’s cardiothoracic intensive care unit that supports patients, their families and unit staff during the dying process. It gives nursing staff tools to care ...

"By embracing a DTC sales model, pharmaceutical companies and the patients that consume their drugs can essentially cut PBMs and other middlemen out of the picture," writes Pipes. Several Big Pharma ...

Severe tricuspid regurgitation is a debilitating condition that is associated with substantial morbidity and often with poor quality of life. Decreasing tricuspid regurgitation may reduce symptoms and ...