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This year is a critical moment to make home care accessible to all Americans who need it. 
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Feeling other people’s pain is not the best way to help them — or yourself.
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Four months after surviving a major car crash on the Gold Coast, Kerryn Grafton still has nightmares. Her SUV was crushed like an accordion.
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Reform, not resilience, is the key to changing the narrative and culture of the medical profession and will save doctors’ lives, write Dr Emma Hodge and Dr Elise Witter. The rampant prevalence of poor mental health of doctors in training is a silent epidemic within the health care sector. The studies show we are more …
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Community members are partnering with academics and clinicians to shape research and services in palliative care, say University of Melbourne experts
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Documentation is one of the most cumbersome aspects of practicing medicine.
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A new study shows an increase in the rate of inpatient complications, including infections and falls, though patients were no more likely to die.
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Ground-breaking research identifies 15 factors that significantly raise chance of developing illness
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Once our most intensive interventions end, we are left with this — a choice of tuna fish or chicken salad, or maybe some Oreos, brought up from the hospital basement.
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There are about 100,000 men and women with chronic critical illness in the United States, and this number is only expected to grow.
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Scientists are studying how a decline in our olfactory abilities can signal conditions such as Alzheimer’s
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A study found that people with hypochondriasis — also known as illness anxiety disorder — were more likely to die from a serious illness.
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Key drugs have been in scarce supply, revealing a deep crisis in the generic drug industry.
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Many Australians experience obsessive-compulsive disorder and Yasmin Arkinstall is one of them. She's telling her story through a one-person opera.
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Prescriptions may be subsidised but the cost of over-the-counter pharmacy products is adding up for the chronically ill.
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Dr. Tepper said he can eliminate any vestige of “Ozempic face” with a deep plane face-lift, which costs $75,000. He typically combines this with a procedure in which fat is transferred from other parts of the body to the face (an additional $8,000 to $12,000).
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Apps, wearables and ingestibles that support digital mental health have profound social, ethical, and legal implications, says University of Melbourne expert
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Medical aid in dying gave my sister a choice about how her life ended.
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When she can’t remember words, or entire life events, I don’t correct her. I try to enter her reality
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Lung cancer used to be rare among non-smokers, but that’s changing. Andrew Ure, who has never smoked, was diagnosed after he broke his arm.
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A new “Māori-friendly” screening tool to identify early dementia in Māori is being launched on Tuesday at Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland
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Patients, even those not suffering from COVID-19, now suffer “in a medical version of solitary confinement.”
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An A.L.S. drug rejected by the F.D.A. made me rethink how doctors should give hope to patients.
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Anxiety, depression, loneliness, poor sleep and other issues can take a toll on our emotional well-being. But there are ways to counter these problems.
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Tiny daily decisions matter, and don’t be afraid to talk about embarassing health issues.
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