Medical Malpractice Summit Brings Together Doctors And Lawyers
A health care summit on medical malpractice was held at the Hyatt on Delaware Avenue, yesterday. Doctors and lawyers gathered to discuss issues and possible Pennsylvania tort reform.
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A health care summit on medical malpractice was held at the Hyatt on Delaware Avenue, yesterday. Doctors and lawyers gathered to discuss issues and possible Pennsylvania tort reform.
Infertility is a quiet crisis for many couples and it is hoped that National Infertility Awareness Week can help in two ways.
A new study suggests changing organ transplant laws so that donors infected with HIV could give their organs to patients with HIV. Local stakeholders view the recommendation with caution.
Parents and schools battling head lice are finding the critters are winning.
If you want to stay sharp, you need your eight hours of sleep, right? But many people say eight hours is a luxury they can't afford.
Millions of people suffer with allergies. And right now the tree pollen is very high, so there's widespread misery. Doctors say it's not just pollen that could be aggravating your seasonal allergies.
It will give undergraduate college students an introduction to urban health care, including health disparities, infectious diseases, epidemiology, microbiology.
More than 2,000 medical grants have been given by the foundation since 2007.
World wide, more than 530 million people have the herpes virus and according to a new report people who harbor the virus can be shedding it as much as 10 percent of the time, not even knowing they have it.
Trees with high pollen concentrations are part of the reason why Philadelphia is the 14th worst city for spring allergies.
In the Philadelphia area, researchers found patients commonly saw 10 or more physicians in the last six months of life with a rate of or 54.4 percent compared to the national average of 33.8 percent. Area patients averaged 6.9 days in the intensive care unit versus a national average of 3.7 days.
Hospitals expect to see losses due in part to cuts to Medicaid and Medicare.
A Philadelphia doctor is taking some extra steps to make sure patients getting painkillers from him don't become addicted.
A Montgomery County doctor, who operated a weight loss center in Conshohocken, was arrested Monday, accused of indecently assaulting several female patients.
Are you having a struggle with weight loss? Is it difficult to keep those extra pounds from attaching to your hips? Well now you have someone to blame.
