A cost-effective strategy for health care systems to offset N95 mask shortages due to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is to switch to reusable
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Researchers say faster tests helped expedite access to life-saving treatments such as organ transplants—and might make all the difference later this year. The first analysis
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(HealthDay)—Inaccuracies in provider directories are associated with use of out-of-network mental health care providers and surprise bills, according to a study published in the June
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A team of academics from the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) has undertaken a coronavirus outbreak investigation in four London nursing homes. The research,
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Palliative care is valuable for heart failure patients, and, for those who are hospitalized, it can significantly lower the risk of repeated hospital admissions and
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New “End of Life Care in Frailty” guidelines have been published by the British Geriatrics Society to help doctors, nurses and allied health professionals provide
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In what is believed to be a first-of-its-kind study to evaluate the safety of a type of immunotherapy before surgery in patients with an aggressive
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Jeffrey E. Harris is a physician and a professor in MIT’s Department of Economics. He served as an internist at Massachusetts General Hospital for more
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Publishing in the New England Journal of Medicine today, an international research collaboration led by Professor Tazeen H. Jafar from the Health Services and Systems
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Digestion is the process of digesting food. Through a series of chemical reactions, the body breaks food down into smaller particles to aid the absorption
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