Every time you see a physician, he or she likely asks if you smoke, take medications or do one of countless other activities that affect our health. But there is one questions the doctor probably isn't asking you and should.
Your eyes are not only like sentinels, occupying the highest place on your body, but can see into your future, detecting early evidence of high blood pressure or diabetes!
If you watch the evening news, or pretty much any television, you see ads for medicine to treat just about everything. From ED to cholesterol, you see ads for the latest medicine and the long list of possible side effects. It seems the side effects take up at least half of the commercial.
I don't know about you, but I get genuinely excited when it's time for our "Tell me something good" segment. With all the negative and depressing news we talk about on a daily basis, it's nice to have that faith in mankind restored. Even if it's the simplest story, it's the little things that can mean the world to someone else...
Experts are suggesting a new dress code for doctors and nurses in hospitals.
The main concern is that lab coats, ties, watches, rings and shoes worn by health workers contain too many germs that could make patients sick. Up to this point, there's nothing to show that such outer wear rapidly spreads germs...
Have you ever left your doctors appointment frustrated? You went there for answers and left with more quesitons than you had in the first place. This morning we spoke with Dr. Leana Wen.
Massachusetts faces a shortage of doctors in key specialties from family medicine to general surgery. That's one of the findings of a new report by the Massachusetts Medical Society.