International patients can bring a hospital as much as $2 million for a transplant. In recent years, they have typically gotten organs faster than U.S. patients. Credit...Alyssa Schukar for The New ...

On demand, not on hold — new research revealed the top hurdles that send patients running to a new doctor. According to a survey of 2,000 Americans who’ve been to the doctor within the last year, ...

James Brown has current funding from the Health Research Institute at the University of Limerick. He is affiliated with the University of Limerick, and is a member of the PPI steering committee.

Torie Bosch is the First Opinion editor at STAT. When Joy Lisi Rankin’s mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, she made a decision many people, especially her doctors, did not understand: She ...

Patients worldwide are cautiously optimistic about the use of AI in healthcare. Most support it as a helpful assistant, but few trust it to replace doctors, according to a new study that reveals trust ...

So what is it that rankles Caillou viewers so? After all, the show seems inoffensive enough at first glance. Based on picture books by author Christine L’Heureux and illustrator Hélène Desputeaux, ...

The therapeutic efficacy of the cardiac glycoside digitoxin in patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction is not established. In this international, double-blind, placebo-controlled ...

Melissa Geraghty, PsyD, a clinical health psychologist at the US Department of Defense, developed unexplained episodes of lower body paralysis at the age of 34. “I was told [by healthcare ...

Over the past 40 years, there has been a dramatic shift from the expert doctor who should be revered and obeyed to an increasing role for patients as the experts of their own bodies. As researchers, ...

Base editors can correct disease-causing genetic variants. After a neonate had received a diagnosis of severe carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase 1 deficiency, a disease with an estimated 50% mortality in ...

Healthgrades honored 377 hospitals across 44 states for patient experience. Healthgrades released its 2025 Outstanding Patient Experience Award, which recognizes hospitals that provide top-quality ...

DENVER – Artificial intelligence is quietly transforming how doctors interact with patients — and it might already be in use during your next visit to the doctor’s office. Thousands of physicians ...