Doctors’ waiting rooms: virtually a thing of the past?
The word patient comes from the Latin patiens — an adjective meaning enduring, suffering. In medicine, that endurance…
Who are hospital ethics consultants, and why should you care?
Imagine the following scenarios: A surgeon prepares to amputate a patient’s foot to save his life, but the…
Goodbye CPAP? New Pill Shows Major Promise for Sleep Apnea
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a common sleep disorder in which the upper airway repeatedly becomes blocked during…
Company-sponsored medical covers in pain
Patients on company-sponsored insurance covers are bearing a higher cost of their hospital bills through co-payment after medical…
NYU Langone Health Announces Plans for a State-of-the-Art Academic Medical Center in Melville
As part of its comprehensive strategy to expand access to the highest-quality care across Long Island, NYU Langone…
Ebola outbreak live updates: WHO says significant drop in suspected cases
There has been a major drop in the number of suspected Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of…
Watsonville Community Hospital CEO Stephen Gray leaving | The Pajaronian
Stephen Gray This story has been updated from a previous version. Watsonville Community Hospital CEO Stephen Gray will…
Boston Scientific Stock: Is BSX Underperforming the Healthcare Sector?
Valued at a market cap of $71.8 billion, Boston Scientific Corporation (BSX) develops, manufactures, and markets minimally invasive medical…
Legal fights brewing over the basic business model of telehealth
In less than a decade, telehealth has expanded from a sideshow of health care to an industry worth…
NYU Langone Health plans new multibillion-dollar Melville hospital, Long Island’s first since 1980
NYU Langone Health plans to build Long Island’s first new hospital since 1980, spending billions of dollars on…
‘Animal medicine’: Therapy donkeys help patients at French psychiatric hospital
Therapy donkeys are helping patients with mental health conditions recover in a psychiatric hospital unit outside Paris that’s…
My Job: Meaghers CEO Oonagh O’Hagan on prescriptions, wellness and rejections from the banks
In the midst of the spectacular horticultural offerings at last weekend’s Bord Bia Bloom festival, Meaghers Pharmacy Group…