By 2050, the number of adults over 85 is expected to triple, which will intensify the strain on an already stretched health care system. We wrote about this worsening challenge and its implications ...

After earning a medical degree in 1864, Rebecca Lee Crumpler died in obscurity and was buried without a headstone ...

Self-medication can lead to unintended side effects and even serious health risks. Indians obsessing over self-medication ...

With celebrities singing the praises of full-body MRI scans, a growing number of people are coughing up the cash for ...

The growing number of concierge medical practices limit the number of patients and charge them membership fees. Will this ...

While in the general population and in high-income occupations, women have significantly lower mortality than men, we were surprised to find that among doctors, that wasn't the case. In medicine ...

They need federal visas to live in the U.S., plus state licenses to practice medicine. Proponents of the new laws say qualified doctors shouldn't have to spend years completing a second residency ...

There are more female doctors than male doctors in the UK for the first time, figures show. The General Medical Council ... Surgery, ophthalmology and emergency medicine have the least women.

The Cambridge experts said their 'eureka moment' could lead to doctors prescribing aspirin to cancer patients to keep their disease from spreading and eventually form the foundation for newer ...

Introduction Unwarranted variation in patient care among physicians is associated with negative patient ... Methods and analysis The General Medicine Inpatient Initiative Medical Education Database ...

I and nearly 300 other beleaguered primary care physicians at Mass General Brigham also filed ... So much for the collegial world of academic medicine. Why is this happening?