When lasting trauma is caused by callous acts of violence, the key to recovery can be making meaning out of
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The lies patients need to stop telling their doctors
"My injury isn't sex related." "I don't smoke that much." "These are the only medications I take." Whether it's out
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Researchers find clues to treating psychoses in mental health patients
Psychotic disorders often are severe and involve extreme symptoms such as delusions or hallucinations in which people lose their sense
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Less is more when it comes to prescription opioids for hospital patients, study finds
In a pilot study published in JAMA Internal Medicine, Yale researchers significantly reduced doses of opioid painkillers given to hospital
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How to cure more hepatitis C patients
There is a cure or the nation’s deadliest infectious disease, hepatitis C, but at tens of thousands of dollars per
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Many patients with rectal cancer may not need chemoradiotherapy
It’s unclear whether all patients with advanced rectal cancer need chemoradiotherapy, or whether some can forego the treatment and therefore
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Racial-ethnic disparities in the quality of end-of-life care among lung cancer patients
Significant disparities in the quality of end-of-life lung cancer care were found among racial-ethnic minorities, with higher odds of experiencing
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Patients and families who experience delirium report more distress than those who do not
Researchers from Hebrew SeniorLife’s Institute for Aging Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Brown University, and Yale
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New drug to tame violent patients
Australian paramedics are leading the world by introducing a new drug, droperidol, to quickly and safely calm violent patients fueled
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For patients with esophageal cancer, status of lymph nodes after preoperative therapy determines survival
According to a new study, the status of lymph nodes rather than the status of the primary tumor following preoperative
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