healthcare

By Bianca Heyward

Placebos work. Evidence from many sources shows that medically inert substances when enrobed in an appropriate presentation make us feel better.

Most people agree that drug prices in America are way too high. The disagreement centers on the cause and what to do about it, if anything.

As a physician, it is pretty common to get unsolicited curbside consults in any and all locations - albeit on a plane, train, car, via text message, on a beach, street corner, even in a public restroom. Can you just look at this rash?

In addition to being a source of universal frustration, the high cost of drugs is a public relations nightmare for health systems and the much maligned pharmaceutical industry.

On the verge of a “national emergency,” regulatory experts from the National Health Service (NHS) Improvement body just released their latest review which reveals a crisis in workforce shortag

It is officially July, and that means something in the medical world. With the passage of one day, the first of the month exalts recent medical school graduates to the rank of intern.

Patient records are unruly; they consist of numbers, images, and text. Electronic health records (EHR) are more frequently digital “Xerox” versions of the patient chart’s you’d associate with the kindly physicians depicted by Norman Rockwell.

Humans, it seems, are susceptible to DSS -- "do something syndrome."

Every time I'm in Poland, I make several trips to our favorite massage therapist. Because of the exchange rate and the lower cost of labor, I can get an hour-long massage for just over $30.