Many people may call it self-care to crash on the couch with your smartphone, but screen-based activities increase the load on your brain instead of resting it.
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Some medical errors are unreported or even unknown to patients. Only those that result in severe complications and death are known and reported.
The 2025 tax and spending law lowers the federal loan borrowing limits for nursing students, raising the up-front costs of nursing school.
About 1 in 4 doctors practicing in the US were born abroad.
Shadow AI is the unsanctioned use of AI systems without formal institutional oversight. In health care, it means pasting patient details into public chatbots.
Addressing the financial and personal aspects of aging proactively helps to ensure that you will receive the care you need – and want – as you age.
The current US health care system burdens doctors with heavy patient loads, more administrative work and additional off-hour demands. Doctor-patient interactions suffer as a result.
New draft standards for respirator use recognize the importance of protecting workers and patients in health-care settings, where there is a higher risk of pathogen exposure
Most older patients in a recent study had a ‘no complaints’ attitude to hospital food. But when it was unfamiliar, they were less likely to eat it.
Health care is responsible for up to 7% of Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions. Reducing the use of disposable products could reduce this footprint.
Individuals, organisations, countries and AI developers all have a role to play.
One big risk is overdiagnosis: the more you test, the more you’ll find. Much of this may be clinically irrelevant, meaning unnecessary follow-ups, costs and anxiety.
New guidelines for minor cosmetic procedures have just kicked in, but laws remain inconsistent across Australia. This may not be such a bad thing.
Cuts to Medicare and Medicaid may harm vulnerable populations that depend on government-funded care. Proponents of such cuts often frame them in a different way.
Those signs about surprise insurance charges are intended to keep patients informed – but new research points to a negative side effect.
Health-care professionals aren’t pacifists refusing conscription into the military. They freely choose health-care careers – that comes with obligations.
How practitioners listen and communicate helps shape patient experiences in healthcare systems.
Privacy and bias concerns and integration challenges are brakes on the pace of health care systems adopting the technology.
Rural hospitals have been closing, putting emergency care further out of reach, but that’s only one of the heightened challenges aging rural communities face after a disaster.
Medicaid improves access to care for low-wage workers who cannot survive on bare-bone benefits offered by their employers.
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Professor of Health Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Karen Willis is a Friend of The Conversation.
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Professor of Economics, UMass Amherst
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Assistant Professor of Nursing, University of Michigan
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Economics, University of Sydney
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George Dock Professor of Medicine, University of Michigan