Tag: Doctors and Drugs

Laparoscopic, or minimally invasive, surgeries are not regularly offered to patients in some medical centers.

Once you begin to treat each vaccination on its own terms, it becomes clear that not all vaccinations are the...

Over the last 10 years, the percentage of people across the United States taking statin drugs has risen by nearly...

In the five-month period from August through December of last year alone, pharmaceutical companies paid at least $3.5 billion to...

The long-term use of benzodiazepines, prescribed for anxiety and sleep problems, and one of the most commonly prescribed drugs in...

Words matter. Defining the body holistically matters. And letting the medical community and its defenders get away with rewriting the...

A recent study has discovered a link between the use of growth hormone treatments during childhood and an elevated risk...

Doctors commit suicide at rates quite a bit higher than the general public.

Telemedicine makes live healthcare available to consumers on demand, wherever they are. Telemedicine is going to rewrite how Americans get...

New research suggests that acetaminophen (paracetamol ) may not do much to help relieve your back pain at all--that it's...

A report from the ECRI Institute delineates the top 10 patient safety issues that healthcare institutions should be concerned about,...

A large study published in The American Journal of Epidemiology a few years ago reported a notable increase in hearing...

Treating children with antibiotics before their first birthday may double the likelihood that they will develop asthma at some point...

This week, in a miracle turnaround, the Food and Drug Administration withdrew its recommendation that all at-risk patients should take...

Recent studies have found that neural pathways of the brain are affected even in those who are only considered casual...

When it comes to life, the issue of quantity versus quality is frequently debated. As it turns out, doctors have...

A recent study revealing that one in 20 people receives a wrong diagnosis at an outpatient clinic each year, but...

According to new research, taking Viagra appears to almost double your risk of developing melanoma--even if you only take it...

Gilead Sciences, headquartered in California, has developed a highly effective medication for treating hepatitis C called Sovaldi. but it comes...

Proposed new guidelines would have 87 percent of all men between the ages of 60-75 on statins, and 53 percent...

If you have ever suffered from constipation, you are not alone. 63 million people in North America suffer from constipation...

A new study as concluded that when a mother-to-be takes acetaminophen, the baby she is carrying faces a greater risk...

According to a new report, stethoscopes often play host to infectious agents, including MRSA--a form of staph infection that can...

The recommendations for hypertension treatment have been questioned by a committee of scientists who just completed a five-year study of...

New research has found that a number of common medicines are so high in sodium that they can markedly increase...