While many people in the United States are focused on losing weight to improve their overall health, there is another group of people who are struggling to gain weight.
Hospitals units combining the compassion of hospice and technical care of medical-surgical units may provide efficient, cost-effective assistance to patients with advanced chronic illness or terminal disease.
Drs. Rudolph Leibel and Michael Rosenbaum are members of a multi-center collaboration that plans to test competing hypotheses of obesity and weight gain.
In a JAMA Viewpoint, Jeffrey Lieberman, MD, says disability in people with schizophrenia may be preventable, but health systems must change their focus to early intervention.
