TUESDAY, Sept. 30, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Patients weighing more than 450 lb face considerable limitations when attempting to access specialty care, according to a research letter published online ...

Patients weighing 450 pounds or more face barriers and discrimination when scheduling or attending doctor visits at subspecialty practices, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study.

People with severe obesity are likely to face discrimination when seeking health care, with many clinics outright refusing to see them, researchers wrote in a new study. File Photo by Diego Azubel/EPA ...

The 18,000-square-foot NYU Langone Ambulatory Care Commack at 167 Veterans Memorial Hwy. offers multiple specialties.

For the new study, researchers used a “secret-shopper” method to attempt to schedule an appointment for a patient weighing 465 pounds at practices across five specialties (dermatology, endocrinology, ...

"The pressure was relentless – to fix, shrink and manage a body that medicine had always treated as a problem to solve." ...

Papillary thyroid cancer is the most common form of thyroid cancer, accounting for about 80% of all thyroid cancer diagnoses. It originates from the follicular cells in the thyroid gland, a ...

NYU Langone opens an 18,000-sq-ft care center in Commack, offering multispecialty services and expanding access to care in Suffolk County ...

"We're going to see a huge revolution in the treatment of fibroids going forward," Dr. Greenberg of Brigham and Women's Hospital told Newsweek.

Children’s Mercy hosted a topping off ceremony last week for families, team members and community leaders to celebrate the expansion of their multi-specialty clinic, that has been a cornerstone for ...