Patients with Serious Illness Appear to Adapt Well
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Most people who live with serious disability or illness, such as kidney failure, appear to adapt well and maintain a healthy outlook on life, new research reports.
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After getting a diagnosis of a life-threatening illness, coping strategies include second opinions, online checks and more.
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(WebMD) New data show that patients get vastly different levels of care at the nation&#39;s teaching hospitals and that top institutions offering more intensive and expensive health care often don&#39;t achieve better results.
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There are big variations in the amount of time a patient remains in hospital following standard surgery in England, research suggests.
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They call them "frequent fliers" at Children's Hospital: families with children so sick they've spent weeks, even months, at the medical center. They've come for complicated treatments: chemo for cancer, heart surgery, kidney transplants. The list goes on.
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Infectious-disease expert David N. Gilbert was making rounds at the Providence Portland Medical Center in Oregon in April when he realized that an unusual number of patients, including young, vigorous adults, were being hit by a frightening pneumonia.
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Doctors try to balance a patient's trust with new technology.
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New medical guidelines allow experienced nurses to decide on resuscitating patients.
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Cancer patients can often feel baffled when offered a choice of treatments, a study has suggested.
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New medical guidelines allow experienced nurses as well as doctors to decide on resuscitating patients.
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People with advanced cancer may  suffer substantial emotional distress, but relatively few may  be discussing it with their doctors, new research suggests.
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As AIDS patients live longer they can experience a host of medical conditions that challenge the prevailing view of the disease as chronic and manageable.
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When a massive tsunami crashed into Sumatra more than two weeks ago, nurses at the Banda Aceh Hospital for the Mentally Ill unlocked the doors and let the patients wander off.
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NEW YORK  - Much of the racial and ethnic  differences in the care given to patients hospitalized with a  heart attack can be explained by the quality of the hospital to  which patients are admitted, rather than racial bias, a new  study indicates.
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In todayÂs world of rapid-fire medicine, ÂinvolvedÂ relatives may be a patientÂs most important advocates.
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For some patients, it can be difficult to determine how much treatment is just too much.
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Some mentally ill patients can be mean or bad just like anyone else, and this is not a problem for psychiatry to fix.