Two prominent palliative care specialists are calling on the nation’s healthcare influencers to rethink restrictive visitation policies and scattershot communication practices. 

The COVID crisis has shushed but not silenced hospitals’ talks on mergers and acquisitions in 2020.

CDC researchers are estimating that asymptomatic COVID-19 carriers account for at least half of all community transmissions. This includes carriers who never develop symptoms as well as those who later do.

Among the many Americans refusing to get vaccinated against COVID-19 when their turn comes up is a prominent surgeon who’s also a professional medical communicator and a Johns Hopkins public-health professor.

It’s not inconvenience or expectations of long waits that are prompting the deliberated refusals.

Gastroenterologists need not fear being replaced by machines—and patients don’t have to worry about robot colonoscopists.

AI researchers and developers across the U.S. received a powerful if overshadowed shot in the arm on New Year’s Day.

In 2020, COVID-19 forced the ACC to cancel its entire annual meeting just weeks before it was scheduled to take place. 

University of Toronto researchers also believe this practice will decrease costs and enhance patient flow in their emergency department, they explained in Emergency Radiology.