Tag: Doctors and Drugs

The care a physician provides appears to suffer when a patient is difficult or disruptive during an appointment.

According to the CDC, over 47,000 Americans fatally overdosed on prescription killers in 2014. Almost as stunning was the apparent...

Surgeons are double-task, cutting one patient open in operating room A and then scooting over to operating room B to...

If you want to optimize your chances for good health, you have to choose the best option available--regardless of which...

A new study asserts that if mothers take antidepressants during pregnancy, there's far more likelihood that their kids will be...

A new report from the Environmental Working Group (EWG) warns that nurses may risk their health working in hospitals because...

Scientists in China are continuing DNA experimentation, pushing the boundaries of what many around the globe consider ethical.

A new pill takes an "ingenious" approach to cutting your appetite. You swallow the pill, and then the shell dissolves...

Medication errors are made in nearly 50% of surgical procedures.

The headlines have not been kind to dietary supplements over the last several weeks.

Many drug companies have adopted strategies centered around absurd levels of price gouging.

The BMJ just published an analysis showing that the popular antidepressant paroxetine (sold as Paxil in the US and Seroxat...

There is new research offering evidence once again that common lice treatments are no longer effective in many parts of...

When it comes to vaccines, reason and nuance are in short supply and, in any case, despised on both sides...

Surgeons who listen to their favorite music while operating on patients do the job faster and with more accuracy.

New research suggests an association between robotic surgery and a number of patient deaths--but that may be misleading.

Websites that offer diagnoses for your symptoms are wrong at least as often as they are right.

There are plenty of doctor rating systems out there, but the problem is that the ratings are usually based on...

New research suggests that the ability to detect problems during a colonoscopy varies widely among doctors, and finding the right...

Since Hippocrates is considered to be the father of modern medicine, it's interesting to review his suggestions a few millennia...

A new hypertension vaccine may one day help eliminate "noncompliance," which refers to patients who don't take their medication or...

In Chinese laboratories, scientists are playing with the possibility of genetically modifying humans.

In mid-April, a group of doctors called for the removal of Dr. Oz from the Columbia faculty because of his...

Acetaminophen, also known as paracetamol, not only reduces physical pain but also appears to diminish the emotions we register, both...

Millions of adults may be using ADHD drugs simply as a way to enhance their concentration on a daily basis...