If you are one of the 45 million Americans expected to get routine a physical this year, you may want to reconsider. A recent New York Times op-ed written by Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, one of the experts ...

As we reported previously, even though about 35 percent of the current U.S. population is considered obese, today's physicians aren't confident that they have the tools to help patients lose weight or ...

As a physician, my beliefs about the annual doctor’s visit might be blasphemous. I sometimes wonder whether these encounters are useful. Sympathetically, Dr. Ateev Mehrotra, a professor of health care ...

For centuries, doctors diagnosed illness using their own senses, by poking, prodding, looking, listening. From these observations, a skilled doctor can make amazingly accurate inferences about what ...

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The physical exam findings of aortic stenosis and how they can help in diagnosis and grading of aortic stenosis are the focus of this episode of AP Cardiology with host Andrew Perry, MD, joined by ...