medicine

In a recent article in Nature, freelance writer Michael Einstein reports that vaccination rates are falling—and not just because people are refusing the COVID-19 vaccines.  Indeed, global vaccine rates are ...

What medicine should you take? How should you treat any given illness? What preventative measures are most effective ...

Mary Shelley described Dr. Victor Frankenstein as an Italian-Swiss scientist born into one of the most distinguished families ...

Indonesia's food and drug agency, known as BPOM, has revoked manufacturing licenses for syrup-type medicine production by two local firms ...

Getting into prescription or over-the-counter medicines at home is a major source of accidental poisoning for young children. Yet, nearly ...

High inflation rates have forced almost a fifth of the U.S. population to limit their food purchases, and ...

Attorneys for two doctors have filed a federal lawsuit against the Medical Board of California and state Attorney ...

The New Zealand government has announced it has secured a supply of tecovirimat, the medicine used to treat ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday certain samples of sitagliptin, a compound in Merck's diabetes ...

Commentary In college, I took a Latin American politics and development class. When discussing Latin American medical care, ...

When we think of cooking with herbs and spices, we usually reach for the fresh or dry versions ...

The 1910 Flexner Report laid the foundation of the modern medicine as we know it. Post-COVID, the principles ...

The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (ACSQHC) is encouraging Australia's healthcare professionals to reconsider ...

Don’t take a prescription drug and think you now have health. Health cannot be attained by chemical means. ...

A theoretical physicist who worked with some of the founding fathers of quantum mechanics, Henry Stapp says the ...

Near-death experiences (NDEs) are reported by an estimated 200,000 Americans a year, and studies around the world suggest ...

Commentary  As inflation rates soar toward 8 percent in the United States, many are feeling the squeeze and will ...

When people report having profound out-of-body experiences during close brushes with death, skeptics often attribute it to physiological ...

“And suddenly I was ejected from my body and I wasn’t angry anymore,” she said. A blaze of ...

Commentary For the past 20 years, medical practitioners (nurses and doctors) were ranked the most trusted professions by ...

If you think mushrooms are just a way to add flavor to pizzas and stir-fries, then you’re missing ...

Two hospital leaders have denied that outside influence—including from the state government—led to the termination of the transgender ...

Researchers from the Australian National University (ANU) have discovered that the cheap and widely used drug, heparin, when ...

Frequent interaction between pharmaceutical firms and health professionals increase the likelihood of a conflict of interest, according to ...

Saturday nights were a very special night in our house when I was 16. It was a difficult ...

Commentary Like it or not—and I certainly don’t—the COVID-19 pandemic changed practically everything about our lives. One of the ...

I love music, especially some good old-fashioned jazz, such as that performed by Herbie Hancock or Harvey Mason. ...