Medical body&#39;s culture of self-interest is revealed
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Regulation of doctors by doctors has been highly-prized by the medical profession for 150 years. Now serious and continuing failings exposed by the Shipman Inquiry could spell its end.
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UK and Swiss scientists find a way to trigger an out-of-body experience in healthy volunteers.
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When painful medicine is involved, closeness to a patient can make for fuzzy views.
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The recent controversy over antidepressants, children and suicide is really about trust. Sick people have to trust their doctor&#39;s judgment about the drugs they take.
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The federal government is now telling patients whether their local hospitals are doing what they should to treat heart attacks, heart failure and pneumonia.
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Donna Wilde has spent more than 35 years in the health-care industry without ever touching blood, body parts or a hospital bed. As a health-information manager, she can help doctors find better ways to treat patients or track a person&#39;s medical history.
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Scientists assigned to monitor the ethics of medical studies often help decide whether to approve research even when they have financial ties to the company sponsoring the work, a study shows.
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A South Carolina case has focused attention not just on the danger of an unorthodox therapy but also on the conduct of the state medical board.
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Scientists say they have found how the body controls the machinery it uses to fight infections.
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A new study shows that many doctors waste patientsâ time in office visits by interjecting irrelevant information about themselves.
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Some researchers are finding that the relationship between emotion and health is turning out to be more interesting, and more important, than most of us could have imagined.
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Sufferers are being lured by faddish diets from private clinics, doctors say.
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A new website is being launched in an attempt to strengthen patient choice.
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LONDON: Four out of 10 medical students surveyed believe that a sexual relationship with a patient is ok. According to the study, which has been published in the Journal of Medical Ethics, most students feel
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A scan of the numbers reveals a lot to like about this medical-imaging company.
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Mental illness according to experts is assuming an alarming dimension all over the world. The preponderance of such cases is attracting the attention of individuals, governments and non-governmental organisations
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Dr. Jerome Kassirer served as editor of the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine for eight years during the 1990s. During that time, he says, doctors&#39; conflicts of interest became an increasingly evident problem.