Disease

Atrial fibrillation is an abnormal heart rhythm where the atrium’s contractions are not synchronized to the contractions of the ventricle; the atrial chamber quivers more than contracts.

Twenty years before Haven, the Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase healthcare juggernaut, there was and still is the Leapfrog group.

I live on the East End, that part of Long Island where the island forks into its north, agriculture, and fishing, and it’s south, more associated with the Hamptons, summer home for the beautiful people; but it was not always so.

Not all individuals have the same illnesses, and even for the same chronic diseases, how any patient is affected varies. In determining payments for care, Medicare introduced modifiers to gauge and report on the associated severity of illness.

The quotation is from Ron ‘Tater Salad’ White, a charter member of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour.

President Jimmy Carter is recovering from surgery for a broken hip sustained after a fall at home.

Like a preview reel at the movies, a new paper in Nature Medicine provides a teaser for how precision medicine might one day work; like all good previews, it raises many questions and leaves you wanting more. 

A 50-year-old man’s rare condition caused by a catastrophic stroke leaves him unable to move, speak or perform basic functions like chewing an

The quest for a genetic basis for everything, with the exception of a very few and very bad diseases, has been disappointing – our genetic inheritance is polygenic, where hundreds or thousands of genes each make an exceedingly small contribut

There is little doubt that when it comes to more complex care, experience, be it the physicians or their affiliated institutions, is a crucial determinant.