A new House bill would ban health insurers from imposing arbitrary time limits on patients under anesthesia — days after Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield only backed off the move amid outcry. “We cannot ...

Music helps reduce the pain and anxiety during an invasive surgery in adults. Music therapy is used to alleviate pain, ...

When I was first applying to MSA programs, I asked every program if they had any medical missions or global health initiatives on my interview day. Many programs have a fundraising component like CWRU ...

One day in the nineteen-eighties, a woman went to the hospital for cancer surgery. The procedure was a success, and all of the cancer was removed. In the weeks afterward, though, she felt that ...

Victor Strecher, a behavioral scientist at the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health, lost his 19-year-old daughter to a sudden heart attack in 2010; she had been living with a rare heart ...

THE toxic effects of chloroform on the liver are well known and feared. Studies on animals have suggested a similar role for other anesthetic agents, particularly the ethers. Goldschmidt, Ravdin and ...

With outpatient procedures for common surgeries rising significantly, the costs are spread around, and we all end up paying ...