Background Medical specialists are integral to the medical workforce and play a pivotal role in referral systems. However, in ...

Introduction Each year, millions of people experience recurrent diverticulitis episodes. Elective sigmoid colon resection reduces the risk of recurrence, but The American Society of Colon and Rectal ...

However, paper-based records aren’t quite a thing of the past. The most recent published figures show that only 78 percent of ...

New digital health system promises big gains in screening and treatment, but critics warn it increases the risks of data ...

Wendy Goldberg thought her question was straightforward enough. A 79-year-old retired lawyer in Los Angeles, Goldberg wanted to eat more protein, something she had read could help rebuild bone density ...

The NIH and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will build a data platform to conduct research across claims data, electronic health record (EHR) data, and consumer wearables, HHS ...

Presenting numbers with evidence-based strategies can support patients’ understanding of a medical condition. Healthcare professionals can do this by using numeric probabilities instead of verbal ...

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As legal cannabis has expanded around the United States for both recreational and medical use, companies have amassed troves of data about customers and their transactions. People who have applied for ...

Pharmacy giant CVS is facing several lawsuits over allegedly sending text messages to customers in its prescription database to stop the state of Louisiana from enacting a law that would have ...

Melissa Geraghty, PsyD, a clinical health psychologist at the US Department of Defense, developed unexplained episodes of lower body paralysis at the age of 34. “I was told [by healthcare ...

There's been a crucial shift toward active, ongoing self-management of health and wellness among patients, according to the U.S. Health and Human Services' Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy ...