Personalized nutrition apps flag normal glucose spikes and steer patients away from oats and lentils. An endocrinologist ...

An attending on how a page or a diet question can derail attending rounds. Interruptions in health care cost teaching time, ...

On a Hulu comedy, a man hides his shellfish allergy from a coworker. When the reaction starts, he takes Benadryl. Lianne Mandelbaum is a food allergy advocate, president of the No Nut Traveler, and ...

Doctors are adopting tools that answer clinical questions, and some give inconsistent answers or invented patient data. Neil Panchal, an emergency physician and cofounder and chief medical officer of ...

“Why would you waste your medical training to go into psychiatry? Do you not want to be a real doctor?” I have heard about a hundred variations of this in my career. If you decide to become a ...

Hospitals send new families home with a medically stable baby and instructions for feeding, sleeping, and car seats. What many parents do not get is guidance on newborn brain development and how ...

Medical schools are extraordinarily good at teaching future physicians what they need to know. The harder question is whether they prepare them for the moment when knowledge no longer provides a ...

It’s no secret that drug research and development is commercialized. “Technology transfer” and for-profit partnerships have turned some medical centers, universities, and National Institutes of Health ...

She never saw herself as a leader, and she was quiet and shy, yet she became a chief medical officer. Vidhya Prakash is an internal medicine physician and chief medical officer at SIU Medicine. This ...

A patient receives a hospital bill and does what every responsible article tells them to do. They check it. They see room charges, imaging charges, pharmacy charges, supplies, insurance adjustments, ...

An older patient who tries to climb out of bed after surgery usually draws attention. Someone lying quietly, answering slowly, or turning away from conversation may draw much less. The second patient ...