Successfully treating chronic pain is challenging, as patients respond heterogeneously to analgesic treatments. Such variation in response can be attributed to differing underlying pain-generating ...

In geriatric medicine, the adage that age is just a number holds true. New research uses a simple assessment tool to determine how well older adults diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) can ...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- In geriatric medicine, the adage that age is just a number holds true. New research from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center uses a simple assessment tool to determine how well ...

(HealthDay)—Data relating to the value of bedside physical examinations in the intensive care unit (ICU) are sparse, according to a review published online Aug. 4 in the Annals of the American ...

Bedside cardiac assessment (BCA) involves gathering a patient's medical history, performing a physical examination, and determining the need for diagnostic testing. Physicians integrate this ...

The assessment of a patient’s body fluid status is a challenging task for modern clinicians. Ultrasonography has numerous advantages, the most important being reproducibility and bedside monitoring of ...

The concussion test, which shows results after 15 minutes, can help evaluate patients up to 24 hours after injury, company says. The FDA has approved Abbott’s i-STAT TBI cartridge to use with whole ...

(HealthDay News) — A checklist-based bedside physical examination in the intensive care unit (ICU) is suggested as clinically useful in spite of a lack of evidence demonstrating this, according to a ...

Your Big Read article “Keeping humans in the loop” (October 10) discusses artificial intelligence in the practice of medicine. I gained my Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS) 50 years ...

A simple assessment tool to determine how well older adults diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) can handle treatment has been used in new research A simple assessment tool to determine how ...