What Matters Most: A Conversation with Brian Wong, MD, MPHIn this article, Dr. Brian Wong describes a patient-accountable culture as built around the question, What matters most to patients? He asserts that it is up to each health care professional to take responsibility for his or her ...
What jobs does an MD-MPH degree prepare you for? A dual MD-MPH degree prepares graduates for even more job career opportunities than having just one of these advanced degrees. Medical professionals who have this dual degree may go on to pursue jobs in academia, government, health departme...
Being a Cancer Caregiver Can Be Challenging Caregivers may feel stressed, burdened, financially strained, and overwhelmed as they support their loved one. Some may need to balance caregiving with paid work, household duties, and supporting other family. Caregivers often have health ...
We spoke withHuma Q. Rana MD, MPH, Clinical Director of the Division of Cancer Genetics and Prevention at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, about the impacts of genetic insights, breaking down the process, addressing logistical hurdles, like...
Dana Defosse, Ph.D., MPH, a retired researcher and physician educator coined the term cisgender in 1994, when she was still a graduate student. The word has now been included in all English dictionaries. What does cis mean exactly?
JAMA Patient Page December 3, 2019 What Is a Paraesophageal Hernia? Ioana Baiu, MD, MPH1; James Lau, MD, MHPE1 Author Affiliations Article Information JAMA. 2019;322(21):2146. doi:10.1001/jama.2019.17395 Español A paraesophageal hernia occurs when the lower part of the esophagus, ...
This management does not depend on a routine physical exam, and is best followed by asking ongoing questions from standardized, evidence-based questionnaires like those found at Psychology Tools. These mental health strategies are used every day by our Virtual PCPs. As you can see, once people...
Risk refers to the odds that something will occur, but there are no guarantees. Having one or more risk factors does not mean heart disease is inevitable. Similarly, absence of risk factors does not guarantee you will not have heart disease. Monitoring and modifying certain risk factors is the...
John Whyte, MD, MPH:Welcome everyone to the WebMD Health Discovered podcast. I'm Dr John Whyte, WebMD's Chief Medical Officer. We all age, but how and when has been a bit of a mystery. New research though helps shed some light on aging and it might even challenge our conventional ...
Andrew Chan, MD, MPH Chan is a physician and researcher, chief of the clinical and translational epidemiology unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a professor of immunology and infectious diseases at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health...