Future Hospitals
New hospitals under construction will likely have only private rooms. Reason: Patients in private rooms have up to 45% lower risk for hospital-acquired ("nosocomial') infections than patients who share hospital rooms....
Christina Bates
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The Truth About "Full-Body" CT Scans
It wasn't so long ago that a Cat scan-a computerized X-ray technique, also called a CT (for "computed tomography&...
Avoid Unnecessary Surgery
Few things are worse than having an unnecessary surgical procedure. Yet every year, millions of Americans have operations they do not need....
Read This Before You Have "Minor" Surgery
Having plastic surgery, endoscopies and other minor surgeries in a doctor's office is risky, a study says. "Our research...
Health Conditions Doctors Often Misdiagnose
Each year, up to 40% of Americans who are seen in an emergency room or intensive care unit are misdiagnosed. In some...
Screening Tests : Are You At Risk?
Many medical tests become unnecessary as we get older. A test should be ordered only if the potential benefit outweighs the potential...
Answers to Questions You Always Wanted to Ask
We all have little things that we would like to ask our doctors-but we don't want to waste their time...
What Your Doctor Should Ask You (But Won’t!)
In the US, the typical doctor's office visit lasts seven to 10 minutes. During that time, the doctor reviews your...
What Nurses Know - And Doctor’s Don’t Tell You
Medical doctors are trained to treat illness, injury and disease with medication, surgery and/or hospitalization - but they rarely have time...
