/tags/medicine medicine en-US Copyright Thu, 25 Jan 2024 22:42:29 GMT /politics-government/2024-01-25/oregon-medical-board-needs-better-system-to-fairly-discipline-health-professionals-state-audit-finds The Oregon Medical Board needs to do more to fairly and consistently discipline the health care professionals it regulates, a new Oregon Secretary of State audit found. Thu, 25 Jan 2024 22:42:29 GMT /politics-government/2024-01-25/oregon-medical-board-needs-better-system-to-fairly-discipline-health-professionals-state-audit-finds Ben Botkin /health-and-medicine/2022-12-27/california-lawsuit-calls-private-equity-er-staffing-practices-illegal-and-seeks-to-ban-them A group of emergency physicians and consumer advocates in multiple states, including California, are pushing for stiffer enforcement of decades-old statutes that prohibit the ownership of medical practices by corporations not owned by licensed doctors. Tue, 27 Dec 2022 14:02:18 GMT /health-and-medicine/2022-12-27/california-lawsuit-calls-private-equity-er-staffing-practices-illegal-and-seeks-to-ban-them Bernard J. Wolfson/KHN /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2019-10-25/the-ethics-of-medicine-who-says-youre-dead Modern medicine can accomplish a lot, but it can't save every life. Nor can it answer every question. The ethics of medicine are examined by psychiatrist… Fri, 25 Oct 2019 17:01:00 GMT /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2019-10-25/the-ethics-of-medicine-who-says-youre-dead The ÀÏ·ò×Ó´«Ã½ Exchange Team /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2019-03-05/making-some-bones-about-our-insides Bones do so much for us. Fossilized, they provide records of creatures from the past. On labels and flags (think pirates), they provide effective… Tue, 05 Mar 2019 18:18:59 GMT /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2019-03-05/making-some-bones-about-our-insides The ÀÏ·ò×Ó´«Ã½ Exchange Team /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2019-03-01/when-a-cure-is-not-the-point-md-embraces-palliative-care When Sunita Puri was in medical school, she realized that very little attention was paid to situations in which modern medicine has run out of answers.… Fri, 01 Mar 2019 18:21:54 GMT /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2019-03-01/when-a-cure-is-not-the-point-md-embraces-palliative-care The ÀÏ·ò×Ó´«Ã½ Exchange Team /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2019-01-22/inside-alternative-medicine-with-the-magic-feather-effect The same alternative-medicine treatment that makes your doctor frown might also make you feel better. We're not all sold on the value of conventional… Tue, 22 Jan 2019 18:01:00 GMT /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2019-01-22/inside-alternative-medicine-with-the-magic-feather-effect The ÀÏ·ò×Ó´«Ã½ Exchange Team /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2019-01-21/exchange-exemplar-doctors-not-gods We go to the doctor because we want to know what's wrong with us, and get it fixed. The doctor can usually figure it out... unless she can't. MDs and… Mon, 21 Jan 2019 18:01:00 GMT /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2019-01-21/exchange-exemplar-doctors-not-gods Geoffrey Riley /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2018-08-24/why-so-many-more-black-babies-die The infant mortality rate in the United States has been steadily declining over time. One problem, though: the rate for African-Americans is roughly twice… Fri, 24 Aug 2018 16:35:11 GMT /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2018-08-24/why-so-many-more-black-babies-die Geoffrey Riley /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2018-07-11/how-we-learned-of-the-great-power-of-hormones Wake up. Go to sleep. Run away. Stay and fight. Have you figured out the common connection yet? It's hormones, which influence these and many of our… Wed, 11 Jul 2018 18:15:07 GMT /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2018-07-11/how-we-learned-of-the-great-power-of-hormones Geoffrey Riley /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2018-06-26/doctor-examines-medical-advice-from-non-medical-people Paul Offit knows medicine. And so he speaks from a position of some authority when he talks about issues with the human body and its care and maintenance.… Tue, 26 Jun 2018 16:16:28 GMT /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2018-06-26/doctor-examines-medical-advice-from-non-medical-people Geoffrey Riley