More than half of the nation’s physicians and other health care providers use electronic health records in their practices,... »

How do you advise your patients about sunscreen? Some fodder for discussion (or possibly more confusion) comes from the... »

Hospitalists' role in ACOs is changing, vital

NATIONAL HARBOR, MD. – Accountable Care Organizations are designed around wellness with primary care physicians at the... »

WASHINGTON – Doctors need to step up their efforts to counsel patients on smoking cessation.

That was the message from... »

ROME – Young adults with congenital heart disease lose roughly 1% of their predicted exercise capacity each year, based on... »

ROME – A moderate walk on a treadmill for 1 km proved useful for calculating a patient’s peak oxygen uptake and... »

Cyberbullying triples suicide risk in teens

SAN FRANCISCO – Suicide attempts that required treatment were more than three times as likely in teenagers who reported... »

Concentrations of certain exhaled volatile organic compounds are significantly higher in obese children than in nonobese... »

PORTLAND, ORE. – Joint pain isn’t usually part of the clinical picture when children have juvenile idiopathic arthritis,... »

ORLANDO – Metformin may be associated with a reduced risk of colorectal cancer in patients with type 2 diabetes, according... »

ROME  – Unrecognized heart failure is common among older patients with type 2 diabetes, on the basis of a study of 581... »

PHOENIX – Patients with type 1 diabetes who received high doses of once-daily insulin degludec had fewer episodes of... »

WASHINGTON – Vaccine-resistant isolates of Bordetella pertussis have appeared in Philadelphia – the first such strains to be... »

After being fairly stable for 3 years, the number of human cases of West Nile virus jumped almost 700% in 2012, according to... »

The World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are closely following the spread of a new... »

The age-adjusted death rate for Alzheimer’s disease in Washington State was more than four times higher than the rate in... »

For older Americans who are or used to be heavy smokers, annual CT screening for lung cancer appears to reduce mortality... »

ORLANDO – Colorectal cancers that are identified 6 months or more after a colonoscopy due to either a missed lesion or a... »