With the constant beeping and noise present in hospitals, it is difficult to sleep well in the place where a good night's rest is most needed. A post in NPR's Shots blog reports a new study published in the journal Critical Care which found that eye masks, ear plugs, and melatonin are the key combo for...

Diane E. Meier, MD, FACP, Director, Center to Advance Palliative Care, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai discusses the opportunities and threats to palliative care in 2015. In moving towards global budgets and risk-bearing relationships between clinicians and payer, resulting in a rapid expansion in...

According to Reuters, patients with the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa could be saved by something as simple as intravenous fluids. Researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Copenhagen University say many patients with the disease aren't dying from the well-known hemorrhaging...