“A 24 year old healthy female in her usual state of health presents with acute 10/10 diffuse abdominal pain, anorexia and nausea. On physical exam she exhibits peritonitis, with rebound tenderness in ...

Back in May, I attended my first group physical exam at the Harvard Vanguard medical center in Watertown. It was a routine annual physical exam with my doctor – and five other women. I signed up out ...

Dr. Mark Drazner, a cardiologist at UT Southwestern Medical Center, relies on his hands as well as machines to help him determine, among other things, whether a patient has heart problems. A swollen ...

For centuries, doctors diagnosed illness using their own senses, by poking, prodding, looking, listening. From these observations, a skilled doctor can make amazingly accurate inferences about what ...

This transcript has been edited for clarity. Molly Heublein, MD: Hi. I'm Dr Molly Heublein. Welcome to Curbsiders Teach, our Curbsiders family podcast on teaching in medical education. Era ...

Even if you eat a nutritious diet and work out consistently, you still need to take care of your health in other ways, like going to the doctor for a routine physical. During a physical exam, doctors ...

If you are one of the 45 million Americans expected to get routine a physical this year, you may want to reconsider. A recent New York Times op-ed written by Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, one of the experts ...

Playing on a community or school sports team is a great way for teens to stay in shape and learn teamwork. That's probably why more than 38 million American children and teenagers play at least one ...

On a recent autumn evening, by a golf course at the Greenbrier resort, I sipped a rye Manhattan to try to trip my heart into an arrhythmia. Scout’s honor, this was for legitimate medical reasons, ...

President Trump will undergo his annual physical exam Friday at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, he announced Monday. “I am pleased to report that my long scheduled Annual Physical ...