California cheerleader diagnosed with narcolepsy after being called lazy
A two-time world champion cheerleader from California’s Riverside County struggled to stay awake during the day despite sleeping through…
5 Different Types of Pain You Should Never Ignore
When it comes to severe medical situations, emergency medicine doctors see it all. They’re the physicians who folks…
More doctors are offering memberships for healthcare
Creative Commons photo by jasleen_kaur via Flickr. This story by Briana Brady was first published in The Other…
How to write a patient portal message so your doctor responds
Is your doctor leaving you on read? A new study suggests that the secret to getting your provider…
Boy, 6, died from hidden scurvy after multivitamin lacked vitamin C
A six-year-old boy died from cardiac arrest linked to the “sailor’s disease” scurvy, after a hidden vitamin C…
Mom diagnosed with stage 3 bowel cancer denied surgery
A woman who was diagnosed with bowel cancer after struggling to go to the toilet for two weeks…
Antitrust questions circling Epic Systems, nation’s largest EHR vendor
The Federal Trade Commission is examining Epic Systems Corp., the nation’s largest vendor of electronic health records, for…
Doctor accused of using patients’ medical records in failed Congress bid
A California doctor who ran as a Democrat for Congress used her patients’ medical records to send out…
CT medical center is state-of-art. Also ‘Zen before you see a doctor’
The new Comprehensive Orthopaedics in Connecticut likely couldn’t be truer to its name: it takes into account a…
“No One Knows When It Will End”: A Doctor on the Ebola Emergency
“After that, we put on a hood, and then an apron. We are checked for any leaks of…
Candid Health raises $120 million to take on America’s $280 billion medical billing mess
Candid Health cofounder Doug Proctor spun his laptop around to show me a herd of wild horses grazing…
Why coming off psychiatric drugs is costing me hundreds of pounds
Dr Horowitz also experienced panic and insomnia when withdrawing from antidepressants. It took him years to come off…