A patient portal is an internet-based platform that lets you view medical records and connect with your health care professional. When you use the portal, it means you don’t have to call the office to ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Many patients thought to be in vegetative or minimally conscious states may be capable of thought, researchers reported. By Carl Zimmer When people suffer severe brain damage — as a result of car ...

Universal patient identifiers—unique IDs for every individual in the US—would improve the accuracy, efficiency, and safety of health care. But a ban on the use of federal funding to develop them is ...

In 2017, Matthew Williams, a thirtysomething software engineer with an athletic build and a bald head, went for a long bike ride in the hills of San Francisco. Afterward, at dinner with some friends, ...

In the medical drama House, lupus is mentioned so many times that fans have tallied up the number. Here's why the showrunners ...

Imagine you had been working with Picard, a mental health patient 1 who was involved in a high-profile situation that led to multiple deaths, including Picard’s. Perhaps Picard was involved in a ...

In an intensive care unit at Boston and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a terminally ill patient in the end stage of cancer asked Dr. Daniela Lamas to be removed from machines and tubes so he could go ...