SR Instruments in Tonawanda, NY, has unveiled a new scale that can be used by long-term care facilities. The third in its flagship product line of SR Scales, the new SR-463iR-4 is an in-floor model ...

Although physicians are following established guidelines by weighing their patients and calculating their body mass index, providers often fail to acknowledge weight stigma as a potentially harmful ...

A growing number of doctors across a wide range of specialties have done away with routine patient weigh-ins in an effort to ...

Mistakes or omissions in obtaining patient weights caused almost 500 medication errors in Pennsylvania hospitals over 4.5 years, according to a state watchdog agency. The Pennsylvania Patient Safety ...

Before UK HealthCare in Lexington started construction on a new patient tower at the University of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Hospital, the health system took careful effort to ensure the new ...

WSFA/NBC - Obesity medicine experts say scales that measure muscle mass, water weight and fat are getting more accurate and helping patients to lose weight in a healthier way. UT health obesity ...