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Lawmakers push to notify patients if their doctor is accused of sexual misconduct
State lawmakers are pushing to pass a bill to notify patients if their doctor is under investigation for sexual misconduct, after recent legal cases unveiled physicians who assaulted patients without ...
Health Insurers Deny 850 Million Claims a Year. The Few Who Appeal Often Win.
Health insurers process more than five billion payment claims annually, federal figures show. About 850 million are denied, ...
Wendy Williams Claims She Hasn’t Seen a Doctor in Nearly 2 Years Despite Being Diagnosed with Dementia amid Guardianship
Williams, who was first put under a guardianship in 2022 and later diagnosed with dementia in 2023, has insisted she is "not ...
The Lancet12h
Patient with cystic fibrosis not diagnosed until age 23 years now treated with the new triple therapy Trikafta
The effect of cystic fibrosis on many organs and the frequent lung infections means that it is mostly diagnosed in childhood. Somehow, for Verônica Stasiak Bednarczuk, that diagnosis did not arrive ...
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Simple Tools to Improve Your Delivery of Dementia Diagnosis
Joanna Paladino, MD, and colleagues identified four themes that may improve the delivery of a dementia diagnosis for clinicians, patients, and caregivers.
Dear Doctor: I’m concerned colonoscopy anesthesia will affect husband’s already compromised short-term memory
ANSWER: Both RA and MCTD are rheumatologic diseases that affect many systems of the body. MCTD is often considered an overlap ...
Alzheimer's Society1d
Getting a diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia
This means FTD can be hard for doctors to diagnose as they may not recognise its symptoms as dementia. Most changes in behaviour or personality caused by FTD may not be very obvious at first. These ...
Alzheimer's Society1d
Diagnosing young-onset dementia
Getting an accurate and timely diagnosis of dementia is important. However, for younger people it can often take much longer. There can be specific reasons for this, including: Young-onset dementia is ...
Dear Abby: Do I tell family and friends about a medical diagnosis or do I let my wife tell them ... later?
One of the reasons for keeping quiet was that my daughter-in-law was expecting their first child, and I didn’t want to ruin ...
DEI is a divisive policy. We can do better | Letter
Don’t we all want our children and grandchildren, family and friends, judged by their character and merit, not the color of ...
UnitedHealth Is Sick of Everyone Complaining About Its Claim Denials
Two months after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was killed, the insurer's parent company is going after people who say ...
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Doctor warned Oregon governor, corrections director of delayed cancer treatments for prisoners, poor care for women
Dr. Peter O’Hanley claimed the chief medical officer, Dr. Warren Roberts, presided over a dysfunctional health care system ...