Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

After a, thankfully, transient health scare, Oprah Winfrey offers some sound advice: “Number one? Don't Google your symptoms.”

The results of the biennial 2018 Survey of America’s Physicians, intended to “take the pulse” of doctors in the U.S., were recently

I'm not a big fan of essential oils.

The use of stents to repair an aneurysmal aorta [1] has revolutionized vascular surgery, taking a 3-hour operation with a 5-7 day stay in the hospital and creating a 2-hour procedure with hospitalization overnight.

Given the preponderance of pink bows and media or community saturation of the subject of breast cancer in the month of October, especially, it is not unusual for us to get awareness fatigue.

The expiration dates on drugs can be arbitrary and tell us little about whether the drug in the bottle is still OK to use.

It was just Happy Neonatal Nurses Day, but it seems like every day we celebrate another occupation; and when everyone is honored, often no one is honored. I want to take a moment to recognize and hold in awe neonatal nurses.

I have a friend who has end-stage brain cancer. In order to prolong her life, she has been undergoing high dose radiation therapy, which is taking a terrible toll on her body.

In addition to being a source of universal frustration, the high cost of drugs is a public relations nightmare for health systems and the much maligned pharmaceutical industry.

A miraculous recovery is expected for a 10-year old boy who, while being attacked by yellow jackets in a tree house, fell to the ground only to be impaled by a meat skewer that entered through his face diving d