Tag: Doctors and Drugs

According to Dr. Arjun Srinivasan, Associate Director of the CDC, we have reached "the end of antibiotics, period. We're in...

Currently, there are five HIV protease inhibitors approved by FDA for the treatment of HIV infection. Other remedies?

A new study out of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, just published in the "American Journal of the College of...

Mental health workers--psychiatrists, social workers, and psychologists--consult a book called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Psychiatric Disorders, known by...

A recent survey conducted across the United States in 2012, found that 24 percent of high school age kids actually...

A new study out of the University of British Columbia has found that acetaminophen, the generic form of Tylenol, reduces...

A new study just out reports that almost one-fifth of those patients taking statin drugs end up discontinuing the medications...

Doctors do not always provide patients with a full treatment disclosure of potential health hazards and surgery risks before performing...

When it comes to health, it’s all based on odds, not guarantees. Anyone who makes health claims about the effectiveness...

Grapefruit itself is not harmful. Certain pharmaceuticals for pain, heart disease, schizophrenia, and cancer, on the other hand, have been...

Scientists at the National Eye Institute have developed a device that actually allows blind people to see forms and shapes...

Right now, the US is short about 9000 primary care doctors. In the next 15 years, that shortage is expected...

Although a new study from Danish researchers has determined that there's little benefit to the routine annual physical exams for...

A recent study has found that a popular class of antidepressants called SSRIs may increase the risk of a stroke...

Did you know that if a doctors spends just an extra 45 seconds with a patient, the risk of litigation...

First, a deadly fungus showed up in a steroid concoction that physicians use for pain, spreading meningitis. Then the Kellogg...

Each year, about 4,000 "retained surgical objects" (RSOs) are found inside US patients who have previously undergone surgery. These include soft...

New research, conducted at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, has found that many more physicians than previously thought are...

New research has found that physicians do not always inform their patients voluntarily of every possible risk that might be...

It seems that doctors at one of the largest medical providers in the nation have been routinely and "knowingly" prescribing...

Fox News Interview with Jon Barron

Serious errors are taking place in hospitals everywhere because charts are misread and the medical staff you expect to take...

A recent article in Time Magazine touts the work of Dr. Jasper Smits who has developed a successful program using...

Serious errors are taking place in hospitals everywhere because charts are misread and the medical staff you expect to take...

According to a study just published in the journal CANCER, aspirin and the other commonly used NSAIDS may help protect...