A routine check-up was one of the two most common reasons patients visited their doctor in the U.S. in 2009, according to Stephanie Thompson and Marcelo Tonelli, ...

WASHINGTON -- Recent headlines offered a fresh example of how the health care system subjects people to too many medical tests -- this time research showing millions of older women don't need ...

Claudio Lotito has been admitted to the Policlinico Gemelli in Rome. 'Regarding the news circulated in the afternoon, it is clarified that Senator Claudio Lotito has been admitted for routine ...

Routine check-up visits (they don't have to necessarily be done annually) can lead to better detection and treatment of chronic illnesses such as depression and hypertension, ...

Now some of the nuts-and-bolts tests given during checkups or hospital visits are getting a second look, too - things like routine EKGs to check heart health, or chest X-rays before elective surgery.