High infection rates among younger adults suggest they either delay routine dental care and only seek treatment when conditions become severe, or face more barriers.

Does my child need their tonsils removed?” To answer this question, one must understand the indications for tonsillectomy and risks associated with surgery. There are several indicators for ...

After the first postoperative week follow-up diaries were returned for 75 patients (96%), 35 patients in the nimesulide group and 40 patients in the ibuprofen group. At week 3 telephone interviews ...

Bacterial complications following URTIs were uncommon in both antibiotic-exposed (less than 1.5 per 10 000 episodes) and non-exposed patients (less than 1.3 per 10 000 episodes) with the exception of ...

How Is a Peritonsillar Abscess Treated? The usual treatment for a peritonsillar abscess involves draining it. The doctor withdraws the pus with a needle (called aspiration) or makes a small cut in the ...

Of those patients, 972 developed acute kidney injury, which is a sudden reduction in kidney function, with 411 who were unvaccinated against COVID-19 and 467 who were vaccinated.

If this happens, any patients at UAB-owned or affiliated hospitals or clinics would be considered "out-of-network." The university states that this applies to individuals with both commercial and ...

For some patients, the stakes couldn’t be higher. On May 12, Alexander Schrift, 35, died at home in San Antonio, Florida, less than two months after his insurance company refused to cover the ...

Schumann's retirement follows a patient's death after a procedure at his office and subsequent investigations were launched by the state Dental Board and Grove City police.

Florida hospitals are supposed to make it easy for patients to know costs upfront and compare prices. However, it is not happening in the way federal and state laws require.

As one of three major private psychiatric hospitals in central Brisbane, the family-owned facility has been a lifeline in Brisbane's inner-west for almost 50 years, treating thousands of patients.