Prescription injuries injure thousands of people every year. Injuries could be due to errors in prescribing the wrong medication, dispensing the wrong medication by a
A kidney was the first successfully transplanted human organ. As as the case with much medicine, the journey to that success was fraught with a
We all know that physicians work hard. They grind their way through medical school, then sacrifice much of their twenties or thirties in residency before
Deaths resulting from drug overdoses in the U.S. increased by a shocking 30% over a one-year period of the COVID pandemic. The most significant mortality numbers
Diabetic neuropathy in the lower extremities is a serious, and often disabling, condition for many patients with diabetes. The pain from the neuropathy is often
Anchoring bias is a well known cognitive bias in medicine. The term refers to overemphasizing early-acquired information. One example which occurs in medicine that looks
A report by the group Public Citizen shed some light on state medical licensing boards across the country. The report examined the extent to which
In the midst of the COVID pandemic, another one is slowly brewing that may, by 2050, kill 10 million people a year. This global pandemic
The issues generated by the pandemic’s need for more telemedicine isn’t only about the effectiveness or limits of that kind of medical practice. It’s also: who
A recent study of the success of telemedicine at the University of Pennsylvania, looking at virtual visits during the early months of the COVID pandemic,
