Assessing the accuracy and value of an increasingly popular and free online patient management app, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine and other institutions say that physicians with more training and experience perform ...
Feb 21, 2019
Tests to detect urinary tract infections (UTI) often are performed routinely in hospitals, even when patients don't have symptoms. Such testing "just to be safe" can return results that lead doctors to prescribe antibiotics ...
Feb 21, 2019
The health burden of glaucoma has continuously increased around the globe in the past 25 years, according to an Acta Opthalmologica study.
Feb 21, 2019
Being overweight has been linked with a higher risk of developing a form of kidney cancer called renal cell carcinoma (RCC) among adults, but it's unclear if this risk is present during adolescence. In an International Journal ...
Feb 21, 2019
Patients with interstitial lung disease—a group of disorders causing progressive scarring of lung tissue—are often prescribed various medications that specifically target their disease and others that treat their symptoms. ...
Feb 21, 2019
The World Health Organization says that an epidemic of measles in Madagascar has caused more than 900 deaths.
Feb 21, 2019
