Not everyone who wants a telehealth consultation with their doctor over the next six months will be eligible for one.
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Our research uses artificial intelligence to unblock hospital beds and helps doctors and nurses to know quickly which patients are safe to go home.
Health care, immigration and trade have been hot topics during the campaign and are likely to come up during the fifth Democratic debate.
Despite protective apology legislation across Canada, many doctors and other health-care professionals remain too afraid or ashamed to apologize after medical errors.
Artificial intelligence holds great promise for medicine, but safeguards are needed to ensure it does not harm patients.
Participants of clinical trials can easily communicate online, which poses a big problem for medical researchers.
Each year, inspectors visit Australian hospitals. But they're less like secret shoppers who identify flaws, and more like guests of a carefully orchestrated performance. This needs to change.
There were 325,000 mobile health apps available in 2017. But while the digital health revolution is exciting, its rate of development is posing challenges for patients and healthcare professionals.
Comics often portray those with dementia as abnormal or less than human.
To improve wait times for surgery, Canada needs to fix its health-care system. Developing a national seniors' strategy would be a good place to start.
Half of all patients diagnosed with cancer in the UK still die of the disease.
Creative appointment scheduling minimizes in-office waiting for physicians and patients.
We need to ensure cancer research addresses what matters most.
Already suffering debilitating side effects, chemotherapy patients could be made seriously ill by the food they eat.
Shortages negatively affecting ability to care for patients
Doctors are taught how to treat skin cancer – but not necessarily how to empathise with those who have it.
Many Americans unable to afford health expenses are raising funds through medical crowdfunding. What are the risks?
Both GPs and patients need to wake up to the immediate risk that antibiotic misuse poses.
Doctors can be struck off for having sexual contact with their patient, but where are the sanctions for patients?
Epidurals were developed for pregnant women to address the severe pain of labour. In Australia approximately one in three pregnant women in labour has an epidural for pain relief.
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Lecturer, University of Leicester
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Senior Research Fellow, Western Sydney Nursing & Midwifery Research Centre, Western Sydney Local Health District &, Western Sydney University
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Professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor, National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University
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Stephen Duckett is a Friend of The Conversation.
Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute
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CEO, Australian e-Health Research Centre, CSIRO
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Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Professor of Cybersecurity, School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University
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Research Associate, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Professor of Character Education and Virtue Ethics Deputy Director, Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Marketing, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Medicine and Director of the Centre for Learning Healthcare, Duke University
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Researcher in health and social care, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Research Fellow, University of York
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Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
