Where are the nation's primary care providers? It's not an easy answer
Clinicians at Valley-Wide Health Systems never know who will appear at their clinic in San Luis, a town of about 600 people in southern Colorado.
Feb 1, 2024
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Clinicians at Valley-Wide Health Systems never know who will appear at their clinic in San Luis, a town of about 600 people in southern Colorado.
Feb 1, 2024
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Burnout is an occupational phenomenon that results from chronic workplace stress, according to the World Health Organization. Burnout often includes emotional exhaustion, negative feelings or mental distance from one's job, ...
Jan 30, 2024
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The first medical device powered by artificial intelligence and designed to help doctors catch skin cancer has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Jan 18, 2024
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Online-only health care services have become a trendy way for people to receive low-cost medical attention.
Jan 15, 2024
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In 2021, 12.8 percent of unique prescribers in Medicare Part D prescribed topical antifungals, with about 6.5 million topical antifungal prescriptions filled, at a total cost of $231 million, according to research published ...
Jan 12, 2024
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An average of 22 adolescents 14 to 18 years of age died in the U.S. each week in 2022 from drug overdoses, raising the death rate for this group to 5.2 per 100,000—driven by fentanyl in counterfeit pills, new research finds.
Jan 8, 2024
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Patients frequently describe the U.S. health care system as impersonal, corporate and fragmented. One study even called the care delivered to many vulnerable patients "inhumane." Seismic changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic—particularly ...
Jan 5, 2024
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For older adults, exposure to a low thyrotropin (TSH) level from either endogenous or exogenous thyrotoxicosis is associated with an increased risk for incident cognitive disorder, according to a study recently published ...
Dec 30, 2023
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As Parkinson's disease diagnoses continue to rise in the U.S., limited patient access to movement disorder specialists means the job of delivering the often-devastating, life-changing news falls on primary care physicians ...
Dec 21, 2023
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Jasen Gundersen never considered a career in business when he entered medical school nearly three decades ago to become a rural primary care doctor.
Dec 14, 2023
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