Prostate cancer patients sometimes need to make an important decision: Go with radical surgery or opt for a watch-and-wait approach. But what if the patient doesn’t understand basic medical terms? A ...

A study of low-income men found that most did not understand basic medical terms such as “erection.” Clinicians should speak colloquially when discussing prostate cancer with low-income men because ...

When it comes to prostate cancer, patients sometimes need to make an important decision: Go with radical surgery or opt for a watch-and-wait approach? But what if the patient doesn’t understand basic ...

Patients will struggle to make decisions about their health care if they don't understand some of the most basic medical terms. People will have a better chance of successfully carrying out the ...

Clinicians should speak colloquially when discussing prostate cancer with low-income men, because most of them don’t understand the most basic medical terms, a new study advises. “Many commonly used ...

In 1971, the Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research was established as an expression of the conviction that educational institutions have an important role to play ...