Mets reliever Matt Wise will seek a second opinion on the team’s right rotator cuff tendinitis diagnosis that landed him on the 15-day disabled list on Tuesday.
Wise’s current ailment, he said, is related to a nerve problem in the back of his shoulder that makes his arm feel as if he’s “throwing underwater.” Word from [...]
Yet many health leaders, doctors, insurers and patients support office surgery. The setting is convenient and more private. Physicians can control the schedule and use their own staff, and they usually make more money. There’s less risk of infections spread by sick hospital patients. Because doctors charge low or no [...]
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Some experts have said special brain-wave monitors were the best way to prevent anesthesia awareness. Now, in a big setback for efforts to prevent it, the first large, independent test of the monitors shows they are no better than older technology.
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis compared two [...]
Medicare will start hitting hospitals where it hurts in October, and other insurers are hot on the trail.
That has the nation’s hospitals exploring innovative programs to prevent injury and infection: Hand-washing spies. Surgical sponges that sound an alarm if left in the body. Even a room sterilizer that promises to wipe out bacteria left lurking [...]
This brings up a question about effectiveness of treatment in general: How do we know it works?
We often say that something works, at least when we talk about health problems, because we got better. But suppose we would have gotten better anyway?
It looks like cause and effect, but it may not be.
The first group did [...]
He puts six pills in his mouth and, with a shaky hand, brings a glass of water to his lips. Six down and 19 to go.
Lammers takes 25 pills a day to control his worsening Parkinson’s disease. He has to use a partially filled glass of water, just like everything else he drinks, because his [...]
“He whipped out his cell phone and walked out the door,” recalled Gina, 35, who was pregnant with her first child.
Left in the dark, the Spickas spent a panicky 10 minutes in the room last September while the doctor consulted with a pediatric heart specialist at another hospital.
When he returned, his face was serious.
“This is [...]
In a special pediatric program at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics in Madison, recent patients have included a 100-pound 3-year-old girl and a 417-pound 15-year-old boy. Some children had to be weighed on a loading dock scale.
In a Milwaukee hospital in May, 285-pound Charles Hayes stooped to kiss his 248-pound wife, Jodi, 33, [...]
