Rectal examination is believed dangerous and is commonly deferred or omitted in patients with acute myocardial infarction. To evaluate the safety and specific usefulness in this clinical setting of an ...

In the past few decades, there has been much money and research invested into hospital automation, robotic-assisted surgeries and the use of artificial intelligence to optimize physician tasks. There ...

All of us — physicians, patients and payers — need to change our attitudes about routine health checks. When he posed that question recently to a group of medical residents, he received what is ...

As we reported previously, even though about 35 percent of the current U.S. population is considered obese, today's physicians aren't confident that they have the tools to help patients lose weight or ...