Rosenfeld begins the call by politely requesting an ASL interpreter for her upcoming appointment. The receptionist responds ...

As a med student at Stanford, I think about my mother, who knows very little English. I wonder how I could make patients like ...

Anesthetics are meant to make you feel comfortable enough and feel as little pain as possible during a potentially agonizing medical procedure. Being in that medicated state can sometimes lead to ...

The physician work force is aging fast, and some hospitals now require that older clinicians undergo testing for cognitive ...

A new paper by researchers at Mass General Brigham describes using a team of AI agents, instead of humans, to design optimal ...

Hospitals are not courts, and physicians are not arbiters of guilt. This bill does not merely alter hospital policy; it fractures the foundation of the doctor–patient relationship. When ICE enters the ...

Anthony Kelly receives funding from Innovation Fund Denmark. Anne Cronin does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this ...

For most people, heartburn is an occasional annoyance and source of temporary discomfort. But for some, chronic heartburn can lead to more dangerous conditions — potentially even pre-cancerous ones.

Terminally ill New Yorkers deserve the right to make their own end-of-life decisions, with appropriate protections in place. Gov. Kathy Hochul says her decision to support medical aid in dying in New ...

The Trump administration is arguing that requiring real-time American Sign Language interpretation of events like White House press briefings “would severely intrude on the President’s prerogative to ...

The Trump administration is fighting to keep American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters from interpreting White House press briefings in real time after the The National Association for the Deaf (NAD) ...