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According to a new study, kidney failure patients who take part in an education program are more likely to get evaluated for a kidney transplant.
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Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has attacked President Obama's healthcare law initiative, which intends to give free screenings for birth defects to all pregnant women by requiring insurers to cover the costs of the test.
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The vast majority of patients with incurable lung or colorectal cancer talk with a physician about their options for care at the end of life, but often not until late in the course of their illness, according to a new study by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, published in a recent issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine.
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Providing for fundamental human needs to people who are close to death is complex and sophisticated, but ultimately it involves the integration of physical, psychological, social, and spiritual elements, according to a study1 published in PLoS Medicine by international researchers.
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According to a report, the years-long belief that women are born with all their eggs is false.
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A report that appears in the medical journal Pediatrics reveals that sex-changing treatments are becoming more prevalent among teens and children who believe they were born the wrong sex. The report goes on to say that these youngsters are getting support from parents and doctors alike.
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The FDA issued a guidance detailing how to comply with the new regulation that informed consent documents include a specific statement that clinical trial information will be or has been submitted for inclusion in ClinicalTrials.gov's trial registry.
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At Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, IL, a patient has become the final link in the world's longest living-donor kidney transplant chain.
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One year ago, a landmark study quantified a relationship between physicians' empathy and their patients' positive clinical outcomes and suggested that a physician's empathy is an important factor associated with clinical competence.
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California HealthCare Foundation, Oakland, CA, commissioned a survey that would determine what percentage of patients actually has end-of-life (EOL) wishes in place.
