CMS updated its Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating this week, with the bulk of facilities sitting in the middle of the pack. Overall, 385 (12%) rated hospitals earned top marks...

Stakeholders across the board are calling for a return to regular order at the FDA following the resignation of Commissioner Marty Makary, MD, MPH, who said he resigned in protest...

The patient was a 63-year-old man whose feelings of being unwell had been building for 4 days, and this was before anyone called 911. By the time my emergency medical...

(MedPage Today) -- At an annual pediatrics visit, a 15-year-old female patient told me she was trying to "eat healthier." I asked her to tell me what that looked like,...

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's sweeping demands for confidential transgender patient information from Rhode Island's largest hospital that provides gender-affirming care to minors. U.S. District Judge Mary...

Presentation A 21-year-old woman visited her doctor for multiple moles on her chest that first developed in her early teenage years and progressively increased in size and quantity over the...

The combo, decitabine and cedazuridine tablets plus venetoclax, was approved for adults aged 75 and older and adults with comorbidities that preclude intensive induction chemotherapy. Medscape Medical News Source link...

Eight physician specialties crossed the half-million-dollar threshold. See what’s driving their earnings. Medscape Medical News Source link : https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/500k-club-2026a1000fog?src=rss Author : Publish date : 2026-05-14 18:03:00 Copyright for syndicated content...

Physicians remain skeptical that health insurers' pledges to ease prior authorization hassles will result in any meaningful action, an American Medical Association (AMA) survey found. In June 2025, a group...

The risk from hantavirus to the general public remains very low, ⁠and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more than 100 staff members actively working on... Reuters...

Among U.S. adults with diabetes and steatotic liver disease in the All of Us cohort, new use of a GLP-1 receptor agonist was linked with a 38% to 42% lower...

An Alabama nurse was shot and killed during an attempted robbery in the hospital parking lot. The suspect had been dropped off at the hospital earlier in the day and...

You may find vocal fry irritating, but don’t automatically attribute it to womenCavan Images / Alamy If you have listened to a podcast or watched a video on TikTok lately,...

An oncologist traveling on the cruise ship at the center of a hantavirus outbreak has been cleared to leave a special biocontainment unit in Nebraska, where he was the lone...

The number of women skipping sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) for early breast cancer doubled over a 5-year period to become the predominant strategy for low-risk disease, a prospective study...

Two new physician social media communities have come online in recent weeks -- Roon, and one run by the social media personality Dr. Glaucomflecken -- joining a crowded field that...

Charred trees still standing after a wildfire in Glacier National Park, MontanaGorski/NurPhoto/Shutters​tock In 2021, a smouldering underground coal seam ignited the tinder-dry grass and brush in Poverty Flats, Montana, setting...

A trio of studies from the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 2026 Annual Meeting show the potential of several emerging treatments for dry eye disease. Medscape Medical...

EyePoint said on Thursday an independent safety committee found no new concerns in two late-stage trials ⁠of its experimental eye disease drug Duravyu and recommended the... Reuters Health Information Source...

Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s chief spokesperson Rich Danker resigned Wednesday, citing irreconcilable differences over an effort to promote flavored e-cigarettes...