University of Queensland research has found verbal and physical abuse of medical receptionists by patients is rife, and causing lasting harm. Dr Fiona Willer from UQ's Centre for Community Health and ...

PARIS — The rise in violent incidents at hospitals and doctors' offices has led clinicians to be on constant lookout for ways to keep themselves safe while caring for patients. At SantExpo 2023, well ...

Leukaemia UK warned that too many patients are "slipping through the cracks" within the NHS. The charity commissioned ...

Hip replacement patients who received “aggressive post-discharge care” from a patient-centered medical home care management model experienced reduced six-month mortality rates without increasing costs ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Nursing home residents had a higher rate of aggressive end-of-life care than community-dwelling residents.

A nurse with 25 years of experience has said wearing a body camera has made her feel safer because of a "massive increase in ...

Patients with advanced cancer who also had cardiac defibrillators were more likely than those without these implants to receive aggressive end-of-life care, a team led by UT Southwestern Medical ...

For most of the past 100 years, doctors typically had three ways to treat cancer: remove it surgically, destroy it with radiation, or reduce it with chemotherapy. For many patients, these approaches ...

In almost all solid tumors—i.e. cancers with a solid tissue structure—the detection of tumor cells in the lymph nodes is ...

—Despite the fact that about one-third of patients with ERBB2-positive breast cancer develop brain metastases, not much is known about outcomes among patients who have disease limited to the central ...