A new review identified 10 healthcare communication practices that clinicians can use to create unhurried healthcare conversations with their patients.
What happened during the early weeks and months of the COVID pandemic changed the face of health care — both in terms of the people working within it and the way that health care is delivered.
The WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and WVU Medicine Geriatric Medicine are opening the WVU Frailty Clinic, which will help patients regain strength, mobility, and independence by offering specialized assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation. The Clinic, which will officially open March 20, will be the first of its kind in the state.
Two people have now died in the growing measles outbreak in west Texas and New Mexico. New Mexico Health officials on Thursday confirmed the death of an unvaccinated adult who tested positive for measles. The first death was a school-age child in Gaines County, Texas last week. News of a second death comes as infectious disease doctors worry that the federal government's messaging about the outbreak is putting more emphasis on treatments like vitamin A than on vaccination, even as misinformation about some of these treatments is spreading online.
Psychosocial stress during pregnancy could lead to higher blood pressure during the first year postpartum according to research from Keck School of Medicine of USC.