A first-of-its-kind trial is testing adult stem cell transplants for advanced dry macular degeneration. Early results show the treatment is safe and can significantly improve vision, even in severely ...

When patients receive services from mental health professionals (MHPs), they have a right to informed consent (Barsky, 2023). Informed consent includes the right to understand what kinds of records ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every Tuesday at the MUHC's Cedars Cancer Centre, a group of musicians take over the radio oncology unit to deliver a dose of ...

Every Tuesday at the MUHC's Cedars Cancer Centre, a group of musicians take over the radio oncology unit to deliver a dose of music therapy. It all started when one Montreal musician created a company ...

For the first time, scientists have used a modern cell therapy called CAR-T to treat a patient with three different life-threatening autoimmune diseases that had resisted years of treatment. The ...

The role of long-term beta-blocker therapy after a myocardial infarction in patients without left ventricular systolic dysfunction or heart failure is unclear in the era of contemporary ...

Indiana is barring one of the nation’s most expensive autism-therapy providers from billing the state’s Medicaid program two weeks after the company’s practices were detailed in a Wall Street Journal ...

Magalí Druscovich has followed Parkinson’s patients in the tango program for four years. For this piece, she and Pam Belluck talked with several people involved in the program. Tango is the national ...

LAS VEGAS – Language barriers remain a persistent challenge in healthcare, often leading to misunderstandings in discharge instructions that can increase medical risk and contribute to avoidable ...

Dustin Vidrine's sight is disappearing — shrinking, really. He has retinitis pigmentosa, a rare, inherited eye disease that runs in his family. By the time he was in his 20s, he noticed that his ...