Internists

Dr. Joyce Brothers dies at 85; popular TV psychologist

2013-05-13 20:12:00

Fame was never her intent, Dr. Joyce Brothers often said. She was not yet 30, new to stay-at-home motherhood and struggling to help her husband stretch his pay as a medical resident when she came up with an ambitious plan: Transform herself into a...

After hospital care, the test begins

2013-05-09 00:00:00

In 2011, my husband, Eric, a trial attorney, was felled by a brain stem stroke just before he was to board a flight at O'Hare in Chicago. He was just 53 years old with no prior health conditions or problems. From the outset, we knew his recovery and...

Saying no to surgery

2013-05-10 21:27:00

Thom McDaniels is no stranger to surgery. As a longtime athlete and high school football coach, he's spent years putting his knees through the wringer. After injuring his right knee again during football practice, he was told by an orthopedic surgeon that...

Antidepressants: A help or hindrance to those facing surgery?

2013-05-02 05:30:00

About 11% of Americans over age 12 take an antidepressant, making the drugs the most widely used medication in the United States. And with more than 51 million in-patient surgeries performed annually in the United States, a substantial overlap between the...

Use of alertness drug modafinil takes off, spurred by untested uses

2013-05-02 13:51:00

In up-all-night, work-work-work America, a prescription medication like modafinil was sure to make major inroads from the get-go. And, whether you call this novel stay-awake drug by its commercial names -- Provigil and Nuvigil -- or by its plain-Jane...

Grocery shopping on an empty stomach leads to dieting disaster

2013-05-06 15:03:00

Attention dieters: If you want to maximize your chances of success, don’t go to the grocery store on an empty stomach. So says a new JAMA Internal Medicine study from two members of the Cornell University Food and Brand Lab, where researchers...

A wife's Alzheimer's, a husband's obsession

2013-05-05 08:00:00

Ken Chiate is a born problem-solver, and in the summer of 1961, when he was on break from college, his problem was a head-turning blond named Jeannette. He was head lifeguard at a public pool in Phoenix, where his father owned a liquor store. She worked...

Federal panel says everyone 15 to 65 should have HIV test

2013-04-29 16:09:00

Citing recent evidence that HIV infections are best managed when treated early, an influential panel of medical experts has finalized its recommendation that all people ages 15 to 65 be screened for the virus that causes AIDS. The recommendation from...

Letters: Doctors and nurses -- who will take care of us?

2013-04-25 00:00:00

Re "Can't a nurse do that?," Editorial, April 21 To combat the impending physician shortage all across California, and the crisis already facing rural areas, state law absolutely must change to allow greater independence for non-physician medical...

For Muslims, bad memories and new worries

2013-04-18 16:48:00

There are few Muslims in the small northeast Ohio town where Karen lives with her Palestinian American husband and their five children. In a region where Amish and Mennonite women cover themselves, Karen and her 20-year-old daughter, Amanda, find the...

In Boston bombing, Muslims hold their breath

2013-04-17 11:37:00

Shereef Elnahal is a native of Virginia, a graduate of Harvard Medical School and a first-year internal medicine resident who helped triage explosion victims with ruptured eardrums and major limb injuries on Monday at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in...

Watch it live: The science of a healthful diet explained

2013-04-08 10:35:00

As a student at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Timothy Harlan was often struck by how little the medical professionals around him seemed to know about healthful eating. Doctors would tell their patients what foods to avoid, but rarely did...

Restaurant meals and processed foods are not doing your diet any favors, according to two new studies in JAMA Internal Medicine.

2013-05-13 15:07:56

As of November, about 46,000 primary-care physicians were practicing in California, or about 120 per 100,000 residents. That ratio is misleading, however; though the availability of doctors is sufficient in urbanized counties, it falls off sharply in less densely populated areas.

2013-04-19 20:15:00

UC Irvine medical student Christine Louie celebrates after learning she got into a UCI/CHOC residency program on Match Day in 2011. Once again, more medical students chose residencies related to internal medicine and primary care in 2013.

2013-03-15 14:31:35