AI-generated responses to patient portal messages may improve workflow for nurses but not for other health care workers, a ...

Investigators have identified a number of potential considerations resulting from billing patients for consults via secure messaging. Billing patients for physician services provided via patient ...

The optimal duration of perioperative antibiotic prophylaxis in patients undergoing cystectomy is within 24 hours, research confirms.

(HealthDay News) — Standing more does not improve cardiovascular health and may increase the risk for circulatory issues, according to a study published online in the International Journal of ...

(HealthDay News) — Patients with comorbid diabetes have an elevated risk for lower extremity amputation (LEA) at all stages of chronic kidney disease (CKD) compared with patients without diabetes, ...

Generic tenofovir disoproxil fumarate/emtricitabine the most frequently prescribed medication since 2021. (HealthDay News) — Preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) use increased between 2013 and 2023, ...

Pharmacists may continue making compounded versions of the weight-loss medication tirzepatide while the US Food and Drug Administration revisits its Oct. 2 decision to remove the medicine from a ...

Patients not waitlisted for kidney transplant received breast or prostate cancer screening at lower-than-expected rates, including those with good life expectancy. Breast and prostate cancer ...

Gilead is withdrawing the accelerated approval of Trodelvy (sacituzumab govitecan-hziy) for metastatic urothelial cancer.

1 in 5 asymptomatic individuals were antigen-positive versus half of those with ongoing cardiopulmonary, musculoskeletal, and neurologic symptoms ...

(HealthDay News) — For patients with hip fracture, delayed admission is associated with increased mortality risk, according to a study published online in Emergency Medicine Journal.

(HealthDay News) — There are no significant differences in all-cause or cardiovascular mortality with the prescription of dialysate calcium 1.50 versus 1.25 mmol/L for patients undergoing hemodialysis ...