Doctors who've faced the disease themselves share candid lessons about empathy, medical bias, and the humanity of care.

Earlier this month, a newer patient came in to see me for a check-up and discussion about her extremely high cholesterol level. In her late 50s with a family history of early-age heart attack, she was ...

Communication is an underappreciated skill, particularly in medicine. While our world has become increasingly interconnected thanks to the ever-growing number of new devices, apps and infrastructure, ...

A team from the University of Michigan and Cornell University sifted through more than 200 million notes sourced from 1.6 ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a go-to tool in health care, helping clinicians such as radiologists make diagnoses ...

A new study published in the January issue of the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management points to racial bias in the treatment that patients receive toward the end of their lives, the Huffington Post ...

I was treating a man whose stroke had severely affected his right arm,” recalled Parry, now emeritus professor of human communication and interaction at Loughborough University, Loughborough, and ...

In recent years, sporadic medical disagreements have arisen. Inadequate communication between the medical team and patients, together with their families, accounts for around one-third of medical ...