Integration & Physician Issues

Howard Tucker, MD, is the oldest practicing physician and neurologist, at 100 years old. 

Only 5 percent of U.S. adults say a physician or healthcare provider has ever spoken with them about gun safety, according to new research from the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Health officials in Arizona are implementing key changes statewide to improve healthcare access for residents in its most rural regions — which the state has a higher percentage of compared to other areas throughout the country.

Ann Arbor-based University of Michigan's Michigan Institute of Clinical & Health Research received $71 million to improve the process of translational research to deliver treatments to patients more quickly.

Sidney Wanzer, MD, pioneering advocate for physician-assisted death, died March 28 at 93.

A 32-year-old nursing student received a dual-organ transplant thanks to her more than 250-person team at Rochester, N.Y.-based Strong Memorial Hospital.

King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services, one of the nation's largest healthcare providers, released its annual report April 6 detailing its growth, division changes and expansion plans.

As a nephrologist at Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine, Aleksandra Gmurczyk, MD, often treats patients with kidney failure, some of whom express distrust in the medical system and skepticism about undergoing kidney transplants.

Retired physicians are donning their white coats once more to help ease staffing shortages, CBS Bay Area reported April 5.

Medical schools are keeping excellent candidates out of the field with unnecessarily competitive application processes, an anonymous physician wrote in an article on MedPage Today's Kevin MD.