A surprising number of people are catching pneumonia or urinary tract infections in hospital, a new Australian study shows for the first time.

By Lucy Maddox. This new research adds to a body of evidence that takes the blame off the nurse and squarely places the responsibility on the system to do better.

We routinely misinterpret patients' wishes around medical interventions. Dr. Fred Mirarchi may have a way to fix that.

Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, Internet of Things and blockchain technology are shaping the current healthcare industry. Find out how tech trends benefited medical sphere today.

Artificial intelligence is often hailed as a great catalyst of medical innovation, a way to find cures to diseases that have confounded doctors and make health care more efficient, personalized, and accessible. But what if it turns out to be poison?

Anyone who says they’re worried about people losing their health insurance because of Medicare for All is being disingenuous: every year, under our current system, 50 million lack insurance at some point. The only solution to that insecurity is Medicare for All.

Burnout, characterized by emotional exhaustion as well as feeling cynical, ineffective or unaccomplished at work, is bad for both employees and employers. For doctors and hospitals, though, the ramifications can be especially dire. Doctors in the U.S. experience symptoms of burnout at almost twice the rate of other workers, often citing as contributors the long hours, a fear of being sued, and having to deal with growing bureaucracy...

Workers in nursing homes, hospital ERs and other health facilities are required by law to notify police whenever they notice likely signs of physical or sexual abuse. But that's often not happening.

The donor stool had not been tested for the drug-resistant bacteria before the procedure, the FDA noted.

A gene that gives Salmonella resistance to antibiotics of last resort has been found in a sample taken from a human patient in the U.S.

Antimicrobial Resistance; patient stories; antibiotic resistant infections;

Our team picked up the best mobile apps for stress management and your mental recharge. Check them out!

An online platform that provides a basic health plan to protect individuals in China against 100 critical illnesses has reached 50 million users since it launched in October 2018. The app is called Xiang Hu Bao, which means ‘mutual protection’. It was created by mobile payment app Alipay, part of Ant Financial Services Group – which was spun out of billionaire Jack Ma’s Alibaba.

I was at the end of the long table in the conference room when I realized the drugs had become a problem. As I tried to focus on the presentation — some suit droning on about tax benefits and pricing tiers — I zoned out, and my face became flushed. Burning-hot rage pulsed across my skin, crackled down to my fingertips, then shot back. I wasn’t sure I could make it out of the room without doing something I’d regret.

Using data from 950 patients with chest pain, researchers from the University of Turku, Finland, were able to train an algorithm to identify patterns that indicate a higher propensity for heart attacks and cardiac-related deaths. The outcome of these patients was known over a six-year period, which meant the researchers were able to know with certainty if the predictions were accurate.

Symptoms of IBD, such as abdominal pain and diarrhoea, frequently mimic or overlap those of irritable bowel syndrome [IBS] and therefore IBD patients with concomitant IBS pose a diagnostic and therapeutic dilemma for many physicians.

Millions of people might have had their financial and medical information stolen due to a Quest Diagnostics and AMCA data breach.

One campaigner has not been seen for 40 days after being detained during rally in Beijing

Denver's proposed supervised injection site collided with federal law Tuesday, when the United States Attorney's Office in Colorado and the local Drug Enforcement Administration office released a joint statement slamming the idea of a supervised injection site.

Protecting an infant from pain may be a matter of instinct. In a new study, researchers show that gently stroking babies during medical procedures, as parents intuitively do, reduces infants’ feelings of pain about as well as applying a topical anesthetic. The discovery suggests touch and tactile stimulation are effective means to mollify pain in newborns and an alternative to using drugs.

Patients with Type 2 diabetes might be testing their blood sugar too often, potentially costing the healthcare system millions, according to a new study. Of the more than 370,000 patients, 23.4 percent filled three or more claims for test strips over the year, and more than half of those individuals were deemed to be using the supplies inappropriately, researchers found. A median of two strips were used a day, making the average claims cost for test strips $325.54 per person per year.

As the partial government shutdown drags on into its sixth day, President Donald Trump has remained steadfast in his demands that $5 billion for a wall along the US-Mexico border be included in any package to funding and reopening the government. "Have the Democrats finally realized that we desperately need Border Security and a Wall on the Southern Border," Trump tweeted Thursday. "Need to stop Drugs, Human Trafficking,Gang Members & Criminals from coming into our Country."

Kristi Haynes knew she had a problem when her eyes turned the color of traffic paint. Haynes had been feeling strangely tired, but she didn’t have many opportunities to look at herself in a mirror because she’d been homeless for a few months. Her fiance noticed her yellow eyes and freaked out. And that’s how Haynes knew she had caught the disease so many of her friends already had: hepatitis A.

As an emergency room physician, Richard Zane often considers how software can help him with patients. The problem is that engineers and doctors are from different worlds. Zane, who's also the chief innovation officer at UCHealth in Colorado, said that most technologists he's met have never seen the inner workings of a hospital and don't have a deep understanding of what doctors want and need.

The record-keeping aspects of healthcare technology have always underperformed, with patients getting the short end of the stick. Now, applied to electronic health records, open standards may finally give patients control of their data and care.

Being a better you needn't be as hard as you think. From more sleep, to snacking smarter and ditching the gym - we put 10 New Year's resolutions to the test

When fighting on behalf of the father you love, who do you become? By Beth Kephart.

It’s nearly Bell Let’s Talk Day. You know, the one day of the year when social media is flooded with messages urging us to talk about mental health and to feel good about doing it. But as the father of a young adult who has experienced mental illness, campaigns like this make me want to scream. On its Let’s Talk website, Bell boasts about donating money to “mental health” – the words “mental illness” rarely appear – and uses inane slogans such as “Mental health affects us all."

As the Western Washington measles outbreak grows to 60 cases, the Department of Health reports that most of those are in young unvaccinated children. Two people who got the virus had received the MMR vaccine. More information can be found here. As this outbreak grows, a Spokane woman says its troubling her that people are opting out of the vaccine.

From aggressive patients with Alzheimer's to frustrated caregivers, dementia is increasingly entwined with violence in private homes and residential facilities.

Vinod Khosla, a legendary Silicon Valley investor, argues that robots will replace doctors by 2035. And there is some evidence that he may be right. A 2017 study out of the Massachusetts General Hospital and MIT showed that an artificial intelligence (AI) system was equal or better than radiologists at reading mammograms for high risk cancer lesions needing surgery.

A doctor in California told a patient he was going to die using a robot with a video-link screen. Ernest Quintana, 78, was at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Fremont when a doctor - appearing on the robot's screen - informed him that he would die within a few days. A family friend wrote on social media that it was "not the way to show value and compassion to a patient".

A 6-year-old boy was playing on a farm when he cut his forehead, a laceration that was simple enough to tend to at home. But six days later, his parents realized something was seriously wrong: He was clenching his jaw, having trouble breathing and experiencing involuntary muscle spasms. The boy, who had not received vaccinations, was taken to Oregon Health & Science University and was found to have tetanus...

Dr. Dana Corriel wrote on Facebook in September that the flu vaccine had arrived and encouraged patients to come to her office for a shot. Within hours, the post was flooded with thousands of comments from people opposed to vaccines. Corriel initially decided to allow the postings to continue, hoping to use the moment to educate people about the importance of immunizations.

A form of cancer treatment Lauren Krelsham credits with giving her another chance to live will be made more widely available, with the Federal Government announcing $80 million towards a facility in Melbourne. The $105 million treatment centre will be housed at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and will offer CAR T-cell therapy, Health Minister Greg Hunt said. The treatment involves removing some of a patient's immune system cells so they can be re-engineered in a lab, before they are reinserted to attack cancer cells.