Acupuncture is one modality within a much larger medical framework of TCM and related East Asian systems. In daily practice, ...

An implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) is a small device that your doctor can put into your chest to help regulate an irregular heart rhythm, or an arrhythmia. Although it’s smaller than a ...

The World Health Organization’s fully-electronic 11th edition of the International Classification of Diseases contains 55,000 codes, compared to the 14,400 in ICD-10, Medscape reports. “We are working ...

Multiple news stories in the lay press stating that burnout is now an official medical diagnosis, according to the World Health Organization's new International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11), ...

Revised ICD-10-CM codes for neurocognitive disorders are now in effect, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) has announced The coding changes for major and mild neurocognitive disorders ...

The International Classification of Diseases, or ICD, is a classification system for all physical and mental diseases produced by the World Health Organization (WHO). It’s used for diagnosis, research ...

While many use marijuana for managing chronic pain or as a way to unwind at the end of the day, according to UW Medicine, ...

According to a recent publication, ICD-11 (the International Classification of Disease, used as a coding manual in healthcare) may very well include a diagnosis called “Compulsive Sexual Behavior ...

Despite the controversy surrounding ICD-10, there is one universally agreed-upon upside to the hyper-specific coding system: Weird and obscure codes that stand for bizarre medical injuries. There's ...

Nearly anywhere you go, it’s easy to find children and adults alike transfixed by their phones, and while texting and social media certainly claim a big part of that attention, increasingly it’s ...