Many doctors abandon a potentially life-saving medical scanning technology soon after training, because systemic barriers ...

The suicide of a 26-year-old Pennsylvania police officer over the after-effects of the popular eye surgery LASIK was not an isolated incident, with others saying it left them with agonizing and ...

A former Northern Kentucky doctor convicted of improperly prescribing opioid medications to patients will serve his sentence outside prison walls.. Dr. Michael Fletcher, 61, appeared in federal ...

Doctors, patients finding relief by ... All of this industry pressure is what ultimately pushed Garcia to throw up her hands last summer and leave that system behind to start Horizons ...

A new study from Vanderbilt University Medical Center shows that clinical alerts driven by artificial intelligence (AI) can help doctors identify patients at risk for suicide, potentially ...

Stacia Alexander was 25 and pregnant when her OB-GYN first recommended a hysterectomy. It was 1996, and an ultrasound had revealed fibroids growing in the walls of her uterus.

In a recently published study, 50 doctors were asked to diagnose medical conditions from examining case reports, with some of them being randomly assigned to use ChatGPT to help with their ...

Patients often are in the dark about which organs remain and which were removed — particularly the ovaries, which profoundly influence lifelong health. Patients often are in the dark about which ...

A new ultrasensitive, soft robotic “finger” has been developed by international researchers that can conduct medical tasks, like checking for a pulse and examining patients for lumps. Although ...

The finger was able to identify the hardenings in a similar way to a doctor examining a patient. The research team then mounted the artificial finger on a robotic arm .

Researchers have developed an ultrasensitive, human-like robotic ‘finger’ capable of safely performing routine physical examinations like a medical doctor would. They say the ‘robodoctor ...

An ultra-sensitive robotic “finger” can take the pulse of doctors' patients and even check for abnormal lumps. The soft robotic device with a sophisticated sense of touch can perform "routine ...