International patients can bring a hospital as much as $2 million for a transplant. In recent years, they have typically gotten organs faster than U.S. patients. Credit...Alyssa Schukar for The New ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. John Samuels is the Founder/CEO of Wellworth healthcare advisory firm. America’s healthcare system was never designed for patients ...

When Britain’s King George III died in 1820, he was blind, deaf and apparently mad. His physicians, limited in their medical knowledge and hindered by protocol in examining their royal patient (they ...

Over the past 40 years, there has been a dramatic shift from the expert doctor who should be revered and obeyed to an increasing role for patients as the experts of their own bodies. As researchers, ...

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals has put its dancing shoes on to raise awareness of the experience of living with acute hepatic porphyria (AHP). A recently released patient storytelling initiative by the ...

Base editors can correct disease-causing genetic variants. After a neonate had received a diagnosis of severe carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase 1 deficiency, a disease with an estimated 50% mortality in ...

Healthgrades honored 377 hospitals across 44 states for patient experience. Healthgrades released its 2025 Outstanding Patient Experience Award, which recognizes hospitals that provide top-quality ...

DENVER – Artificial intelligence is quietly transforming how doctors interact with patients — and it might already be in use during your next visit to the doctor’s office. Thousands of physicians ...

Background: Congenital erythropoietic porphyria (CEP, OMIM #263700) is a rare autosomal recessive disease characterized by skin photosensitivity, hypertrichosis, scarring in light-exposed areas, ...

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Imagine this scenario. A man, 87, is taken to the emergency ...