Health Livings

Why Patients Prefer Same-Sex Doctors Research suggests that men and women are both more likely to ask for a primary care physician of the same gender.Why? A bad experience with a physician of the opposite gender, a patient’s comfort level, a religious belief, or outright bias can lead to the preference. Knowing the reason a

Australia’s season just ended, causing 300 deaths and around 1,700 hospitalizations. Because of this, doctors in the U.S. are worried about a more challenging flu season in the country this fall.  For Kencee Graves, an associate professor of internal medicine and chief medical officer for inpatient health at the University of Utah Health, there’s much

A look at the top cardiovascular disease (CVD) diagnoses in US emergency departments (EDs) suggests that many heart-related emergencies are due to poorly controlled high blood pressure. In a study of more than 20 million ED visits, about one third of CVD-related ED visits in the United States were for hypertension-related conditions. Overall, 13% of ED

ealth experts expect another surge of COVID-19 cases to come this fall as new subvariants of the virus spread, but will people need to mask up to protect themselves? Mask mandates have eased around the country since the height of the pandemic when they were a requirement in most states in public settings. Now, the

So, how are we doing? At a recent meeting, we had a report out from one of the groups that reviews the feedback from patients across the spectrum of care we provide at our practices. Select patients receive these questionnaires from our institution’s practices after they visit, either through the mail or online, where they

Risks Arise When Physicians Befriend Patients Physicians sometimes befriend patients, socialize with them, and become close. But professionals caution that such relationships raise ethical issues and could affect patient care. Friendships between physicians and patients are not unusual: 29% of 1600 physician respondents to Medscape’s 2022 Physician Friendships: The Joys and Challenges survey said that they

There’s been growing concern on how COVID-19 could have significantly increased the risk of children developing type 1 diabetes.  Based on new research that analyzed electronic health records of over 1 million patients aged 18 and below, children infected with SARS-CoV-2 showed a higher risk for type 1 diabetes.  “Incidence of new-onset type 1 diabetes

The study covered in this summary was published on medRxiv.org as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. Key Takeaway Why This Matters Study Design Participants were older adults from two ongoing community-based cohort studies of aging and dementia: the Rush Memory and Aging Project (MAP) (n = 1179), and the Religious Orders

“Some nursing homes and chains will hire medical directors to just do what I call the three S’s: Sit down. Shut up and sign. Don’t make waves.” — Karl Steinberg, MD, immediate past president of the Society for Post-Acute and Long Term Care Medicine, on a proposed bill requiring all 15,000 Medicare-approved nursing homes to

Despite a promising start, extended follow-up from the SUGAR trial found that the Cre8 EVO drug-eluting stent could not maintain superiority over the Resolute Onyx DES at 2 years in patients with diabetes undergoing revascularization for coronary artery disease. The Cre8 EVO stent (Alvimedica) is not available in the US but, as previously reported, caused