Here’s everything you need to know about the benefits of physical exams and some effective ways to promote them in the workplace. Physical exams are small but essential components of maintaining a ...

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 ...

National Self-Check Month is an annual observance that reminds people to monitor their health through regular visual and ...

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 ...

A routine physical examination ensures that you stay in good health. A physical can also be a preventive step. It allows you to catch up on vaccinations or detect a serious condition, like cancer or ...

As we reported previously, even though about 35 percent of the current U.S. population is considered obese, today's physicians aren't confident that they have the tools to help patients lose weight or ...

It is often difficult for psychiatry residents to perform physical exams on patients before their admission to the psychiatry ward. For example, the patient may be violent, be situated in the ...