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An increasing number of reproductive endocrinologists are banding together to offer infertility treatments--often with financing and money-back guarantees--in the hope of building on the $2 billion infertility market and gaining [...]

CHICAGO -- Physicians are deeply involved in the problem of medication errors and are a vital part of the solution, participants said at a meeting on patient safety sponsored by [...]

'How odd,' the physician told his nurse. 'This patient is coming in for a visit even though she's suing me.' This scenario is being played out across the country as [...]

CHICAGO -- Despite progress in car safety and child restraint systems, motor vehicles are still the number one killer of children older than 1 year. Problems with vehicle / child [...]

CHICAGO -- Proton pump inhibitors, cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors, and thyroid hormone therapy will be the first classes of drugs to be evaluated by a new pharmaceutical assessment organization launched by the [...]

'How odd,' the physician told his nurse. 'This patient is coming in for a visit even though she's suing me.' This scenario is being played out across the country, as [...]

CHICAGO -- Physicians are deeply involved in the problem of medication errors and are a vital part of the solution, participants said at a meeting on patient safety sponsored by [...]

The off-label use of an antiulcer drug is threatening to curtail the widespread availability of medical abortions--right on the eve of mifepristone's closely watched rollout. A recent warning from Searle [...]

The off-label use of an antiulcer drug is threatening to curtail availability of medical abortions--right on the eve of mifepristone's closely watched rollout. A recent warning from Searle not to [...]

The nation's first new allopathic medical school in 2 decades is preparing to open soon in Florida, a victory for state legislators who pushed it through over the objections of [...]

Researchers face worrisome decline in outlets for publishing their findings. These days, it's profit or perish. The American Medical Association's decision to close the financially strapped Archives of Family Medicine [...]

The 50 or so ob.gyns. on the medical staff at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center used to be required to take call at the emergency department for a full week once [...]

A growing number of Web-based companies are offering consumers information about the cost of health care services--as well as steep discounts on physician and hospital fees. At the same time, [...]

A growing number of Web-based companies are offering consumers information about the cost of health care services--as well as steep discounts on physician and hospital fees. At the same time, [...]

Hospitalists may be helping to solve the on-call problems of urban primary care physicians, but the difficulties of finding coverage are more likely to persist for doctors working in rural [...]

CHICAGO -- Dietary trans-fatty acids are directly and significantly related to higher systolic and diastolic blood pressures, at least in men at high risk of coronary heart disease. 'Intake of [...]

DALLAS -- During a meeting that broke new ground in several areas, the Congress of Delegates of the American Academy of Family Physicians adopted guidelines for a future AAFP plan [...]

CHICAGO -- Helping physicians to quit smoking--and offering them glucose tablets or other accommodations in nonsmoking settings--would reduce the impact of nicotine craving on performance and mood, Dr. Jonathan Foulds, [...]

CHICAGO -- A broad-based panel has developed evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for addressing tobacco use in pregnant women. 'Up to now, obstetricians have had no dear direction about how to [...]

Some experts attribute the recent rise in the cesarean rate to a decrease in the frequency of vaginal birth after cesarean section, but others say more women are choosing cesarean [...]

CHICAGO -- Physicians who smoke are less confident that they can convince their patients to quit, according to a 1998 survey of 2,073 French general practitioners. Dr. Loic Josseran, coauthor [...]

CHICAGO -- The first national survey to look at all tobacco use--both cigarette smoking and noncigarette tobacco use-among college students indicates that nearly 1 in 10 is now a cigar [...]

New recommendations from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists address oral contraceptive prescribing for women with underlying medical conditions. Among the key recommendations, ACOG suggested that progestin-only contraceptives--but not [...]

CHICAGO -- Geography is destiny Dr. John E. Wennberg, editor of the 'Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care,' has been preaching that message for years. His argument takes on new force [...]

CHICAGO -- The American Osteopathic Association's 'unity' campaign appears to have instilled solidarity within the group; AOA's 430-member House of Delegates voted unanimously to approve a 20% dues increase at [...]

New York physicians may soon face online public disclosure of their malpractice settlements and judgments, as well as some hospital disciplinary actions. Over strong objections from organized medicine in the [...]