A recent panel of experts discussed how physicians can address patients’ dangerous and misleading beliefs about their health.

You know things are off the rails when nurses can lose their jobs for talking to patients. A medical ward nurse at the main regional hospital has an excellent record, plus decades of experience. She ...

A recent article from Mayo Clinic President and CEO Gianrico Farrugia, M.D., offers a compelling glimpse of what that future ...

There is no effective screening for early oral cancer anymore. That's because about three-quarters of oral cancer hides behind the tonsillar pillars, in the posterior phalanx, or at the base of the ...

(Reuters Health) - Doctors rarely talk about weight concerns with patients who are overweight or obese, and when they do, patients' experiences tend to be negative, according to a new review of ...

Why aren’t hospitals better at communicating? The founders of Careful say the problem is not the old cliché about doctors being good at treating patients, but hopeless at talking to them; rather, most ...