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The Office of Attending Physician (OAP) was established by congressional resolution in 1928 to meet the medical needs of Members of Congress. [1] The OAP began serving the medical needs of the U.S. House of Representatives in 1929 and the following year, in 1930, began serving the U.S. Senate.
Brian Patrick Monahan [1] (born 1960) is the Attending Physician of the United States Congress and the United States Supreme Court and holds the rank of rear admiral in the United States Navy. Monahan was nominated to the position and rank by United States President Barack Obama in January 2009. [2]
The American Association of Cancer Research’s latest Cancer Progress Report highlighted the role alcohol has in causing cancer. Excessive levels of alcohol consumption increase risk for six ...
On Jan. 3, the U.S. Surgeon General issued a sobering report about the cancer risks linked to something that most Americans enjoy frequently: an alcoholic beverage. In the advisory, Dr. Vivek ...
The number of physicians serving and running for Congress has risen over the last 50 years from 5 in 1960, down to 3 in 1970 and a low of 2 in 1990 up to 10 (in 2000) [3] to a maximum of 21, including one female physician, in 2013, [4] as of 2015, there were 18, and as of 2017 a small decrease to 15 physicians.
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The USPSTF has evaluated many interventions for prevention and found several have an expected net benefit in the general population. [10] Aspirin in men 45 to 79 and women 55 to 79 for cardiovascular disease; Colon cancer screening by colonoscopy, occult blood testing, or sigmoidoscopy in adults 45 to 75. [11]
‘On par with cancer and heart disease’: Experts, patients warn Congress about the burden of long COVID as the government blows through $1.15 billion without finding a cure Carolyn Barber ...