Recently, a general practitioner (GP) in Spenge, Germany, was severely assaulted by a patient in the waiting room, highlighting a disturbing rise in violence against healthcare professionals. The ...

Aggressive behavior of patients is noticeably increasing in clinics and medical practices. High time pressure, overcrowded waiting rooms, and often unrealistic expectations among patients can cause ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Aggression among nursing home residents is extremely common, and often triggered by territorial issues, according to one of only a handful of studies to look at this issue.

When nursing homes, designed to care for older adults, begin housing aggressive patients with severe behavioral and psychiatric issues, the risks multiply. Dr. Asif Merchant is a physician and medical ...

In May, surveyors issued Jefferson Health’s Abington (Pa.) Hospital an immediate jeopardy warning after determining a security guard used excessive force against a psychiatric patient who had not ...

Adults taking GLP-1 receptor agonists, the drug class behind Ozempic and similar medications, showed significantly weaker ...

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Adults taking GLP-1 receptor agonist medications showed a roughly 62 percent weaker link between impulsivity and violent ...

Scientists have identified a potential driver of aggressive lung cancer tumors in patients who live in areas with high levels of violent crime. Their study found that stress responses differ between ...