June is Men’s Health Awareness month, a time that serves as an opportunity to reflect on men’s health issues. Unfortunately, one concerning trend is an increase in advanced stages of prostate cancer in men. Prostate cancer is one of the top causes of death in men in...
Hundreds of thousands of patients are misdiagnosed in the United States every single year and researchers call the issue an “urgent public health problem.” In a recent publication in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Internal Medicine, almost 25%...
A misdiagnosis occurs in at least 1 out of every 20 patient encounters in doctors' offices, according to a study by researchers at the Houston Veterans Affairs Center for Innovation and Quality, Effectiveness and Safety and the Baylor College of Medicine. This...