“What Is THAT?” How Medical Crowdsourcing Saved Teen’s Life

What at first seemed like a normal cough was really a rare, life-threatening condition. (Photo: Getty Images) When Utah-based urgent care physician Easton D. Jackson, MD, saw a 14-year-old boy for a garden-variety concern, he didn’t think much of it.

Here are the apps that will provide healthcare technicians with an advantage in 2017

There are more than two million apps available for both Apple and Android devices, so it’s not surprising that over 10,000 of those are dedicated to healthcare—many of which are geared toward physicians.

Experts say new Drug Ratings Tool is groundbreaking

The global social network for physicians, SERMO, has created a new Drug Ratings Tool that will make it easier for those in the medical field to share valuable information.

Meet the Facebook for doctors

When a thyroid cancer patient walked into Dr Richard Armstrong's surgery in a very rural part of Michigan in 2008, the general surgeon was able to operate and remove the affected gland.

What doctors want from health care reform as latest Congressional effort falters

As the latest Republican replacement for the Affordable Care Act begins its death rattle, a growing number of physicians worry that any solution Washington proposes will not fix the nation's ailing health care system.

Board Certification and Fees Anger Doctors

Dr. Jonathan Weiss is tired of passing exams. A triple-board-certified physician from upstate New York, Dr. Weiss retakes a long written test in each of his specialties — internal, pulmonary and critical care medicine — every 10 years to maintain his board certification.

Docs To Candidates: Your Ideas For Slashing Drug Prices Won't Work

The top Democratic presidential candidates will be heading to the debate stage tonight, and the problem of sky-high drug prices could very well end up on the agenda.

Innovating the doctor’s lounge

The doctor’s lounge used to be a great meeting place for doctors. A place where only doctors could go to discuss medical cases and share the stresses of everyday practice.

Crowdsourcing: the answer for rare disease diagnosis?

The main challenges in the diagnosis of rare disease are apparent, there are 7,000 identified rare diseases with hundreds of new diseases being discovered annually.

Doctor Participation Drops As Obamacare Enrollment Begins

Even as some of the nation’s largest health insurers scale back participation on public exchanges under the Affordable Care Act, doctors and hospitals expect a slight decrease in engagement on the Obamacare marketplace for 2017.

Less than half of global doctors convinced on biosimilars; poll

Even as some of the nation’s largest health insurers scale back participation on public exchanges under the Affordable Care Act, doctors and hospitals expect a slight decrease in engagement on the Obamacare marketplace for 2017.

Could New ICD-10 Medical Codes Put the Health Industry in Sick Bay?

October is the first month health insurers and medical-care providers have to use new government-mandated ICD-10 medical codes.

Doctors are cutting opioids, even if it harms patients

More than half of doctors across America are curtailing opioid prescriptions, and nearly 1 in 10 have stopped prescribing the drugs, according to a new nationwide online survey.

Doctors are cutting opioids, even if it harms patients

More than half of doctors across America are curtailing opioid prescriptions, and nearly 1 in 10 have stopped prescribing the drugs, according to a new nationwide online survey.

The unproven benefit of awareness campaigns

As October wanes, so recedes from sight the plethora of pink ribbons, pink merchandise, pink this and pink that—the now familiar symbols of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Doubts remain as California allows girls and women to get more birth control without a prescription

Doubts remain as California allows girls and women to get more birth control without a prescription

The word “provider” should be politically incorrect

It turns out that when Shakespeare asked, “What’s in a name?” he didn’t have medical providers in mind. In the last decade, the nondescript and confusing term “provider” has crept into the American medical lexicon thanks to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services...

World AIDS Day: Majority of doctors believe pre-exposure prophylaxis will reduce HIV infection

It turns out that when Shakespeare asked, “What’s in a name?” he didn’t have medical providers in mind. In the last decade, the nondescript and confusing term “provider” has crept into the American medical lexicon thanks to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services...

Physician Social Media 101

Many doctors are on the fence about whether using social media is beneficial to their practice. A number of physicians are concerned that patients may attempt to contact them through social media sites, which can encroach on ‘off duty’ time when arrangements for on call colleagues to cover patient matters have already been put in place.

How to Get More Students to Become Physicians

Though many countries are struggling with a shrinking physician workforce, the U.S. in particular has created unnecessary and unique challenges for students seeking to become physicians: massive student debt.

They Got What Stuck Where?

Among the hundreds of thousands of entries in the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System database last year, there are a handful of cringe worthy ones that stand out: at least 53 instances of objects lodged in patients’ rectums.