I am torn. I have the devil whispering in one ear, telling me to join with the masses hailing the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and shouting that he had it coming to him.
People are living longer in Europe. Life expectancy increased on the continent by around 12 years between 1960 and 2022.
Overdiagnosis actually refers to a test that is true positive – it diagnoses a condition that is there. The problem, however, is that these days when we diagnose something that in the past we always thought of as dangerous, it might not actually pose much, if any, risk.
Early in his career as a physician associate in dermatology, Joe Cari, MPAS, PA-C, received a negative online review from a patient that really got under his skin.
Some "never-words" should not be used in conversations with seriously ill patients, according to a group warning against language that shuts down patient questions, offends, or limits decision-making.
Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic was the top health system featured on the inaugural list of America's dream employers, released Nov. 26. More than 10,000 U.S. college students and more than 140,000 employees were surveyed across various industries.
In early October, scientists revealed something spectacular—a complete map of a fruit fly’s brain. Roughly the size of a grain of salt, a fly’s brain has 140,000 neurons connected by almost 500 feet of biological wiring.
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