Sameed Khatana MD, and Barrak Alahmad, MD, discuss the impact of climate change on patients’ risk for cardiovascular disease.
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Clinicians need to be aware of their assumptions about patients based on age.
The polio strain linked to 2 paralytic polio cases in New York and Israel has been found in sewage water in New York City, London, and Jerusalem.
Neha Arora, MD and Sandra Hoyek, MD present a case study and diagnostic images of a patient with pain and a visual disturbance. Can you identify the cause?
Joseph Fong, MD, and April Lao, MD, ophthalmologists with University of Tennessee, breakdown the need-to-know diagnostic and treatment information for idiopathic intracranial hypertension.
Dr Alissa Davis, an Epidemiologist at Columbia University, discusses steps to contain the monkeypox outbreak, including the importance of appropriate messaging and addressing misinformation.
HIPAA protects patients from unauthorized disclosure of personal information by covered entities such as medical practices and hospitals, but out from under the HIPAA umbrella, patients are mostly on their own, according to the authors of a recent report.
When the sky looks all purple with aura floating everywhere, it may be a sign of serious disease.
Surrogate decision makers for a patient are obligated to make health care decisions based on what the patient would have wanted if it is known.
Ethics consultants begin by identifying and clarifying the conflict to ensure it is related to ethics.