On January 1st, 2022, the Biden administration’s “No Surprises Act” will be implemented in medical practices throughout America. The bill ...

Mosquitos are a common vector for deadly diseases in humans, including malaria and dengue fever. Their capacity for disease transmission ...

Residual paralysis is a prevalent yet under-recognized issue in perioperative medicine. Residual paralysis occurs when the effects of a neuromuscular ...

In 1997, the U.S. Congress passed the Balanced Budget Act, which was meant to limit Medicare-based funding to residency programs ...

Hypertension can dramatically increase surgical patients’ rates of morbidity and mortality. Preoperative hypertension increases a patient’s probability of experiencing cardiovascular ...

In order to adequately respond to the global nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments in most countries are working to ...

While general anesthesia (GA) can safely and reversibly induce unconsciousness, exposure to GA may, as has grown increasingly evident, give ...

Human challenge studies are research experiments involving the deliberate exposure, or “challenge” of human subjects to infectious disease—regardless of whether ...

Endovascular therapy (EVT) is the preferred method of treating acute ischemic stroke (AIS) [1]. The operation requires a high degree ...

When Joe Biden served as Vice President under Barack Obama, he was instrumental in passing the Affordable Care Act, one ...

Apps and websites such as WebMD, Ada, Babylon Health, and FamilyDoctor aim to provide diagnoses and triage advice to patients, ...

Continuous infiltration of a surgical wound after an operation is commonly used for analgesic purposes. Specific methods of wound infiltration ...