Tag: Doctors and Drugs

Statin therapy should not be recommended for individuals with elevated cholesterol who are otherwise healthy.

A new experimental medication, without the side effects associated with statin drugs, is being touted as a major advancement in lowering LDL,...

Wellpoint Insurance has paired up with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital in New York to use the IBM Watson supercomputer to help...

A new report just published in the Archives of Surgery says that one out of every six US surgeons has a drinking problem....

A new study reveals yet  that a hospital stay might incur significant cognitive decline -- merely because you were in the...

It's routine practice for drug companies to lavish gifts, lunches, research grants, samples, discounts, contributions, club memberships and more to...

According to a recent study,  most popular aids to smoking cessation, particularly Nicotine Replacement Therapies, are quite useless.

A new study shows that stent surgery was unnecessary and provided no benefit in as many as three-quarters of those who have stable...

A new report just published in the Archives of Surgery says that one out of every six US surgeons has...

Only about 20% of conventional medicine is supported by studies. And even at that, studies provide far less validation and certitude than most...

A recent study shows that smoking marijuana does not harm your lungs after all. In fact, the study actually found that pot smokers...

Every year, close to 100,000 drug-induced hospital-stays take place across the United States among those 65 or older. Recent research...

Plans to immunize girls all over the world ages 12 and under against HPV (human papillomavirus) are gathering steam. Not...

When it comes to health, it’s all based on odds, not guarantees. Anyone who tells you that if you take...

A recent study proving that niacin doesn't help prevent heart attacks and strokes actually rips the facade off one of the...

New research has found that poisoning by medication has risen tremendously in young children in the past few years. Visits...

A news release earlier this week from the American Association for Cancer Research reports that new studies show that diet...

It's been a bad month for the lucrative health-screening-test industry. Those of us who have been poked, prodded, scraped, and...

Research has shown time and again that being admitted to a hospital intensive care unit during weekends and evenings translates to...

A recent study that took place at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, Israel, found that lab coats, scrubs, and...

Research, out of Germany, shows dogs can identify people who have lung tumors better than current medical testing, just by sniffing them.

Whatever you do, laugh. One recent study has found that laughing literally opens the blood vessels. A second study found...

According to a recent study by an international team of researchers at various European institutions, the answer is that it's...

It is the expected norm within the medical community that women — especially those over 40 or with a family...

Measles is being reintroduced to the U.S. primarily by travelers who have not been vaccinated against it. According to the Centers...