It's an increasingly common scenario. You fill in an online form to request an appointment with a doctor, and back comes a ...

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) affects almost 1 billion adults worldwide and carries substantial healthcare and productivity costs. Yet routine follow-up can miss patients’ lived experience because it ...

Measuring blood pressure (BP) at home rather than in the clinic is more reliable and better at predicting risk for heart attack or stroke. However, in a brief report published in JAMA Cardiology, ...

Patients grapple with accurately measuring their blood pressure at home even when cost, education, and accessibility barriers are removed, according to data from a program conducted at Mass General ...

It’s an increasingly common posttreatment occurrence: Patients with hypertension or diabetes return home with new blood pressure or glucose monitors, allowing clinicians to keep tabs on patient ...

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At a time when medical technology breakthroughs often stall long before reaching patients, Northwestern University’s Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics (QSIB) has become a striking exception ...

The battle over the Affordable Care Act premium subsidies, which triggered the longest government shutdown in U.S. history at 43 days, continues to rage on Capitol Hill. To end the shutdown on Nov. 12 ...

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Patients who receive T-cell redirecting therapies are typically hospitalized for several days after treatment to watch for side effects. Now new research by Fox Chase Cancer Center physicians shows ...

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