Oct 25, 2017

Patients do not have carte blanche when it comes to decisions about their medical care. The type of insurance they have dictates which hospitals they must use, which specialists they’re allowed to s...

Oct 20, 2017

Physician’s Weekly, along with Barbara Cox, PhD, co-hosted an informative discussion on how mindset affects physical health. The topics discussed included examples of how the mind affects physical h...

Oct 05, 2017

Join us Wednesday, October 11 at 3:00pm ET for a live, interactive tweetchat with Barbara Cox, PhD, on how mindset affects physical health. Topics to be discussed are subject to change but will likely...

Oct 04, 2017

I’m a surgical resident in training and PhD-candidate in the Elisabeth-Tweesteden hospital, Tilburg, the Netherlands. The Elisabeth-Tweesteden Hospital, a level 1 trauma center with a large neurosur...

Sep 28, 2017

Join us Wednesday, October 25 at 3:00pm ET for a live, interactive tweetchat with Linda Girgis, MD, on how to steer patients toward reliable resources when it comes to pseudoscience-related topics. To...

Sep 27, 2017

Dr. Linda Girgis, MD, FAAFP joined Physician's Weekly to co-host another installment in our #PWChat series, on Tuesday, Sept. 26, on how to steer patients toward reliable resources when it comes to p...

Sep 26, 2017

Join us Wednesday, October 4 at 3:00pm ET for a live, interactive tweetchat with Greg Wells, PhD, on how to help patients make sense of all the exercise-related information found online and elsewhere....

Sep 12, 2017

Join us Tuesday, September 26 at 3:00pm ET for a live, interactive tweetchat with Linda Girgis, MD, on how to steer patients toward reliable resources when it comes to pseudoscience-related topics. To...

Sep 06, 2017

Spanish researchers have clarified doubts over the physical activity recommended during pregnancy. Their work highlights how exercise should be taken not only by healthy, previously active women, but ...

Aug 29, 2017

Join us Wednesday, September 13 at 9:00pm ET / 6:00pm PT for a live, interactive tweetchat with Shereese Maynard, on incorporating nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) into practic...

Aug 29, 2017

Join us Wednesday, September 6 at 9:00pm ET / 6:00pm PT for a live, interactive tweetchat with Marc Probst, MD, and Hemal Kanzaria, MD, on shared decision making in the ED. Topics to be discussed are ...

Jul 18, 2017

NSAIDs are some of the most common over-the-counter (OTC) medications available and include aspirin, ibuprofen, and naproxen. In general, these medicines are safe and carry little danger to users from...

Jul 13, 2017

There’s a lot wrong with healthcare today. Especially the medications they have now a days and all the side effects. Just like the prescription xarelto, check out the xarelto lawsuit June 2017. The ...

Jun 09, 2017

Republicans are trying to cut health care spending. But hacking away at Medicaid, weakening coverage requirements and replacing Obamacare’s subsidies with a convoluted tax credit will not deal with...

Jun 07, 2017

Join us Wednesday, July 12 at 9:00pm ET / 6:00pm PT for a live, interactive tweetchat with Jeff Segal, MD, on defensive medicine, associated costs, and how to avoid both, inspired by his op-ed piece T...

Jun 01, 2017

Tucked into President Trump’s 2018 budget are several provisions to tackle medical malpractice reform, an effort to slash healthcare costs by seeking to impact the everyday practice of defensive med...

Jun 01, 2017

Join us Wednesday, June 21 at 9:00pm ET / 6:00pm PT for a live, interactive tweetchat with Linda Girgis, MD, on the drivers of increasing healthcare costs in the U.S. Topics to be discussed include: ...

May 10, 2017

PTSD in Women With HIV Studies indicate that PTSD is common in women living with HIV and associated with poor antiretroviral therapy adherence, alcohol dependence, and poor health outcomes. However, ...

May 09, 2017

Told from the perspectives of four families devastated by opioid addiction, the HBO documentary Warning: This Drug May Kill You offers a harrowing, unflinching look at the deadly epidemic currently fa...

May 03, 2017

Join us Wednesday, May 10 at 9:00pm ET / 6:00pm PT for a live, interactive tweetchat with Linda Girgis, MD, on the U.S. opioid epidemic. Topics to be discussed include: The current status of the ...