Compared with white patients, Black patients with an aggressive form of leukemia—called acute myeloid leukemia (AML)—were on average more than five years younger at diagnosis and more than 30% more ...

When nursing homes, designed to care for older adults, begin housing aggressive patients with severe behavioral and psychiatric issues, the risks multiply. Dr. Asif Merchant is a physician and medical ...

Recently, a general practitioner (GP) in Spenge, Germany, was severely assaulted by a patient in the waiting room, highlighting a disturbing rise in violence against healthcare professionals. The ...

Patients with advanced cancer who also had cardiac defibrillators were more likely than those without these implants to receive aggressive end-of-life care, a team led by UT Southwestern Medical ...