Credit: Getty Images Improving the quality of patients’ health care decisions is feasible with the right educational tools. Something about focusing on hitting a bouncy yellow tennis ball just right ...

Lidia Schapira, MD, FASCO, professor of medicine at Stanford Medicine, medical oncologist, and director for the Stanford Cancer Institute and the Stanford Comprehensive Cancer Center, shares ways in ...

The recent overhaul of the U.S. pediatric vaccine schedule under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. touched off a firestorm of criticism — most of it for demoting six vaccines ...

Shared decision-making in healthcare, in which patients and providers share information and jointly make decisions based on the individual needs of the patient, requires a significant investment, ...

The American health care system suffers from many misalignments of incentives, but one is particularly irksome: When individual patients make prudent decisions about their care, choosing reasonable ...

Empathy, education, and shared decision-making are crucial for enhancing respiratory care communication. Culturally sensitive, individualized communication and patient expertise are vital for ...

In a major change in vaccine policy, the Trump administration recently dropped recommendations that all kids get six immunizations long considered routine. Instead, they're now in a category called ...