Doctors stress importance of taking COVID vaccine as it becomes available
Dr. Jack Reed has worked for Baptist Memorial Hospital for 45 years, and on Wednesday, he was the first employee there to receive a COVID-19 vaccination.
Columbus doctors offer update on pandemic, give advice on living with COVID-19
Asked during Tuesday’s Rotary Club of Columbus meeting how likely a second wave of COVID-19 is to hit the U.S., Dr. Robert Buckley had a caveat for his audience: The first onslaught of the coronavirus pandemic isn’t over just yet.
Telemedicine, walk-in clinics cloud role of family doctor
Lisa Love hasn’t seen her doctor of 25 years since she discovered telemedicine.
Baptist’s first residency attracts new doctors to area
At Baptist Memorial Hospital in Columbus Monday, six new doctors received their white coats.
More doctors are prescribing exercise instead of medication
When Dr. Michelle Johnson scribbles out prescriptions, the next stop for many of her patients is the gym, not the pharmacy.
Aging MDs prompt call for competency tests at AMA meeting
With one out of four U.S. doctors older than 65, the American Medical Association adopted a plan Monday to help decide when it’s time for aging senior physicians to hang up the stethoscope.
Is your doctor’s office the most dangerous place for data?
Everyone worries about stolen credit cards or hacked bank accounts, but just visiting the doctor may put you at greater risk for identity fraud.
In Columbus, Rural Physicians head talks need for doctors
Mississippi is full of small towns that few people care about, aside, of course, from the people who live in those towns.
Gov’t website for doctor payments not up to snuff
Although it’s called “Open Payments,” the government’s new website doesn’t make it easy to find out whether your doctor is getting freebies, travel or other financial benefits from drug companies and medical device manufacturers.
Drug and device firms paid $3.5B to care providers
From research grants to travel junkets, drug and medical device companies paid doctors and leading hospitals billions of dollars last year, the government disclosed Tuesday in a new effort to spotlight potential ethical conflicts in medicine.
Federal views diverge on proper use of painkillers
How do you have a conversation about prescription drugs that provide critical pain relief to millions of Americans yet also cause more fatal overdoses than heroin and cocaine combined?
Abortion doctors restrictions take root
From Texas to Alabama, laws are being enacted that would greatly restrict access to abortion, forcing many women to travel hundreds of miles to find a clinic. The laws, requiring abortion doctors to have privileges to admit patients to local hospitals, could have a profound impact on women in poor and rural sections of the Bible Belt.
Consumers losing doctors with new insurance plans
The first thing Michelle Pool did before picking a plan under President Barack Obama’s health insurance law was check whether her longtime primary care doctor was covered.
The doctor will see you now via webcam, smartphone
Mark Matulaitis holds out his arms so the Parkinson’s specialist can check his tremors. But this is no doctor’s office: Matulaitis sits in his rural Maryland home as a neurologist a few hundred miles away examines him via the camera in his laptop.
Afghan hospital guard kills three American doctors
An Afghan security guard opened fire on a group of foreign doctors at a Kabul hospital this morning, killing three American physicians and wounding a U.S. nurse, officials said.
Top-paid Medicare doctors say they have reasons
How is it that a few doctors take in millions of dollars from Medicare?
Explanations for Wednesday’s eye-popping numbers from Medicare’s massive claims database ranged from straightforward to what the government considers suspicious, as the medical world confronted a new era of scrutiny.
Fewer Miss. docs accepting Medicaid payments
Fewer than half of Mississippi’s primary care doctors are taking new Medicaid patients, Mississippi State University researchers say.
Half of U.S. adults 40 to 75 eligible for statins
Almost half of Americans ages 40 to 75 and nearly all men over 60 qualify to consider cholesterol-lowering statin drugs under new heart disease prevention guidelines, an analysis concludes.
Good Samaritan clinic helps Lowndes County residents
The Good Samaritan Clinic in Columbus on Main Street gives medical care to those in the community who would not be able to afford it otherwise. Kathy Tentoni, executive director for the clinic, spoke to the Exchange Club at Lion Hills Country Club on Thursday to explain who the clinic helps.
Gunman’s doctor before rampage: ‘No problem there’
The gunman who killed 12 people in last year’s rampage at Washington’s Navy Yard lied so convincingly to Veterans Affairs doctors before the shootings that they concluded he had no mental health issues despite serious problems and encounters with police during the same period, according to a review by The Associated Press of his confidential medical files.