Egypt is again allowing its doctors to work in Saudi Arabia, lifting a ban imposed last month after two Egyptian doctors working there were sentenced to lengthy prison terms and 1,500 lashes each.
Doctors-in-training are still too exhausted, says a new report that calls on hospitals to let them have a nap. Regulations that capped the working hours of bleary-eyed young doctors came just five years ago, limiting them to about 80 hours a week.
Being an ear, nose and throat specialist in Iraq doesn't feel so dangerous any more for Kareem, one of 27 Iraqi medical doctors who spent the past month learning about health care in the United States.
Two Egyptian doctors sentenced to prison and lashes in Saudi Arabia illegally sold pharmaceuticals and one had affairs with female patients, the official news agency reported Sunday.
Iraq will allow doctors to carry guns to protect themselves after hundreds have been targeted and killed since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, the government said Monday.
Several medical associations and 13 state attorneys general voiced their opposition Wednesday to a proposed federal rule that they fear would open the door for hospitals and physicians to deny access to contraception.
Just about every segment of the medical community is piling on the pharmaceutical industry these days, accusing drugmakers of deceiving the public, manipulating doctors and putting profits before patients.
A kidney specialist who fled Iraq's bombings, kidnappings and sectarian killings 20 months ago has reported back to work at his Baghdad hospital — one of some 800 doctors who have returned over the summer.
Some 650 of the 8,000 Iraqi physicians who fled the country since 2003 due to violence have returned to their jobs in the past two months because of improved security, a Health Ministry official said Monday.
The Bush administration on Thursday proposed stronger job protections for doctors and other health care workers who refuse to participate in abortions because of religious or moral objections.
When it comes to saving lives, God trumps doctors for many Americans.
Those hard-to-read scribbled prescriptions from doctors could soon become a rarity. Beginning Jan. 1, the federal government will boost Medicare's payments to doctors that send prescriptions electronically to a pharmacy rather than writing them out on paper and handing them to the patient.
President Bush intends to block a bill protecting doctors from a cut in their Medicare pay, even though Congress seemingly has enough votes to override his veto, a White House spokesman indicated on Thursday.
Sellers of wheelchairs, drugs and other medical supplies collected as much as $93 million in fraudulent Medicare claims based on prescriptions from doctors who actually were dead, some for 10 years or more, a congressional investigation has found.
Road trip! What college student doesn't get a thrill from that cry?
Republican senators blocked legislation Thursday that would trim payments to private health insurers serving people in Medicare and use the savings to raise reimbursement rates for doctors.
Lori Erickson-Trump has faked headaches and back pain. She's had physicals and MRIs she didn't need and she gets paid for it — all to evaluate the performance of doctors and their staffs.
For years, the nation's largest drug and medical device manufacturers have courted doctors with consulting fees, free trips to exotic locales and sponsoring the educational conferences that physicians attend.
If you watched TV, read a newspaper, or flipped through a magazine this week, there’s a very good chance you saw a few advertisements for prescription drugs. They’re hard to miss. It’s not uncommon for a 30-minute network newscast to have four or five drug commercials.
The head of the state's medical board and its general counsel announced their resignations Wednesday amid criticism that the agency mishandled cases, including that of a doctor accused of running a "pill mill" linked to 56 deaths.
Troubling cases in which doctors were accused of botching operations while undergoing treatment for drugs or alcohol have led to criticism of rehab programs that allow thousands of U.S. physicians to keep their addictions hidden from their patients.
Physicians will get a six-month reprieve from a 10 percent rate cut when treating Medicare patients under legislation that passed the Senate on Tuesday.
The nation's medical doctors should have to adopt electronic record-keeping if they want to avoid a pay cut from Medicare next year, the Bush administration said Monday.
Federal authorities arrested more than two dozen people Tuesday in a crackdown on fraudulent medical licenses on the island.