The Food and Drug Administration on Friday expanded the use of Gardasil 9, Merck’s vaccine against the human papillomavirus (HPV), to adults up to age 45.
As a young cardiologist, Jeffrey Wessler knew most of his time would be spent treating patients with full-blown heart disease. It was a depressing realization.
Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court would herald a new lawless age in health care. Last December, Congress zeroed out the tax penalty for not having health insurance, effectively nullifying the individual mandate and with it, a key economic mechanism underlying the Affordable Care Act.
Leon Lederman won a Nobel Prize in 2012 for his pioneering physics research. Three years later, the physicist, who passed away Wednesday, sold his Nobel Prize medal for $765,000 to pay his mounting medical bills. The University of Chicago professor began to suffer from memory loss in 2011, and died in an Idaho nursing home.
A North Texas family is fighting to keep their 9-year-old daughter on a ventilator, though her doctors have said she is brain-dead. But a controversial, unusual Texas law gives doctors and hospitals broad decision-making power. If 9-year-old Payton Summons were lying in a hospital bed in Oklahoma, her parents would have more control over the ventilator that's currently breathing for her. But 100 miles south in Fort Worth, it’s largely left up to her doctors.
A lot of attention is being paid lately to the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare. There is not question that artificial intelligence and related technologies will significantly benefit patients in many ways and transform aspects of medicine. That said, it is a serious mistake – in any way – to discount the extreme importance and value of the physician/patient relationship.