July 19, 2021
About one third of US adults struggled with medical debt during the pandemic, according to data from a Commonwealth Fund survey released July 16. Despite the […]
July 19, 2021
Habitual coffee drinking was not associated with a heightened risk of cardiac arrhythmias in a study of more than 300,000 people. In fact, an adjusted analysis […]
July 16, 2021
Hundreds of Americans have died of heat-related illnesses in the latest country-wide heat wave, and this week’s forecast also brings temperatures back into the triple digits […]
July 14, 2021
The Biden administration will support whatever expansions to Medicare Congress is willing to make, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said Tuesday. Democratic lawmakers on […]
July 12, 2021
Individuals of South Asian ancestry face twice the risk of heart disease, compared with individuals of European descent, yet existing risk calculators fail to account for […]
July 12, 2021
Salary disparities persist in academic internal medicine specialties and are most obvious in procedural specialties, such as cardiology, in which there are fewer women, research suggests. […]
July 9, 2021
Most U.S. adults (77%) age 50 and older in the United States rated their overall health as good, very good, or excellent in an online survey […]
July 7, 2021
Kevin Gendreau, MD, a weight loss doctor at Southcoast Health in Fall River, MA, lets patients know that he was once obese. He says this knowledge […]
July 7, 2021
A physician in Providence, Rhode Island faces thousands of dollars in fines from the US Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration for exposing patients […]