When I work shifts in the emergency department, I often find myself weighing two imperfect options for patients who might ...

Get the lowdown on head lice. Lice do not jump or hop, they can only crawl. In most cases, lice are spread by direct, head-to-head contact. Indirect spread through contact with personal belongings ...

Additionally, the online poll revealed concerns about sepsis treatment practices, with 43% of the 101 poll respondents reporting that they think their patients are overtreated, while 28% noted ...

Dr. Fukaya shares tips for a patient-centered venous disease practice, challenges facing the vascular medicine field, where ...

Antidepressants can be life-saving and life-enhancing for many people, but for most people with mild or moderate forms of depression they are not intended for long-term use. The drugs can also ...

Active surveillance for favorable-risk prostate cancer has become increasingly popular in populations in which prostate cancer screening is widespread because of evidence that screening results in ...

When the patients in the control group experienced relapse, they were treated with carboplatin and showed a tendency to better OS; however, this finding was not statistically significant. The 5-year ...

In many patients, DCIS will never progress to invasive breast cancer and these women are overtreated. In contrast, some DCIS cases are clinically aggressive and the women may be undertreated. We are ...

Reprint Address. Correspondence *Department of Urology, New York Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Cornell Medical Center, 525 East 68th Street, Starr 900, New York, NY 10021, USA.

“I do think there was and maybe still is overprescription,” he told Salon in a phone interview. “But at the same time we have people overtreated, we also have people who are untreated.” ...

Of patients who preferred not to have CPR, 174 (35%) had orders to receive it (Overtreatment). There was considerable variability in overtreatment rates across sites (range: 14–82%). Patients who were ...