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 ...

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 ...

Doctors at a Northern California hospital, concerned that a 40-year-old woman with sky-high blood pressure and confusion might have a blood clot, order a CT scan of her lungs. To their surprise, the ...

Evaluate whether telemedicine can be used to perform dysmorphology and neurologic examinations in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) by determining the examination accuracy, limitations and ...