There are two kinds of cholesterol, HDL (the "good" kind) and LDL (the "bad" kind).
Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
Urgent care centers and retail clinics top the list when it comes to the inappropriate use of antibiotics, according to a new study in JAMA Internal Medicine
Antibiotic resistance is not going away. The CDC estimates that we lose 23,000 American lives every year and $20 billion in excess costs to the problem of resistance. Most experts, myself included, believe this is a vast underestimate.
My colleagues Erik Lief and Chuck Dinerstein have each weighed in with companion pieces, which you'll find below, about a highly controversial rule by the International Association of Athletics Federations (I.A.A.F.), which governs
It's more than a bit ironic that nine months after I wrote about how the Kolodny Klan was using misleading words (and numbers) to promote their version of the fake opioid crisis (See
The rising price for EpiPens, a drug delivery system that is crucial for persons experiencing potentially lif
There is an arms race apace, a war of attrition between humans and bacteria that has lasted millennia. However, with the discovery of penicillin in 1928 the scale was tipped. Pneumonia, tuberculosis, and diarrhea – the 3 leading causes of U.S.
Based on the recent demise of experimental vaccines from Genocea and Vical the prospects for a therapeutic vaccine for genital herpes look mighty bleak at this time.
More than six percent of surgical patients who received opioid painkillers – but had never taken them previously – developed a "persistent habit" or addiction after the normal recovery period for taking them ended.
Co-payments serve two purposes; first, they offset costs, well actually they add costs to you and reduce them for your insurer who never really "pays" for your care; and second, they make you think twice before you access your care.