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Parents of teens often worry about marijuana use and whether it might lead to other drugs or behavioral problems. A recent…
Fertility apps aim to help women understand their bodies. But while some find tracking their data a positive experience,…
Men who can't take drugs for erectile dysfunction and overweight people who can't lose weight sometimes turn to…
Vaccination rates for children in some parts of California are down, despite a law that narrowed exemptions. Here's…
Republicans have sought to limit Medicaid, and a key component of those efforts is requiring that those who receive Medicaid…
World AIDS Day is Dec. 1. With many advances in preventing and treating the disease, the disease has fallen from top of…
November is National Family Caregivers Month; did they get your attention? If not, you are not alone. Family caregivers…
In response to the NRA telling doctors to 'stay in their lane' on gun control, doctors loudly and clearly came back…
Researchers are exploring the possibility of creating living drugs – designer microbes that can live in our guts and provide…
Many brides are ecstatic when they marry, but few use the drug ecstasy on the big day. Kim Kardashian West recently divulged…
Smoking rates are at their lowest, but it has been a long and expensive struggle. Promoters of cigarette smoking have included…
A new type of drug blocks the destruction of neurons in the eye, preventing blindness. The researchers hope that the same…
As death tolls rise from hate crimes, a psychiatrist wonders: Is it time to treat bigotry like a disease?
Hundreds – perhaps thousands – of infant deaths every year are preventable if parents make sure babies sleep in their…
If you're flying during the holidays, you may encounter some emotional support animals. The practice has ticked off…
Health care relies on increasingly sophisticated devices for implanting into the body or monitoring it. Yet most med school…
White men hold more racial bias toward blacks than white women do, and this harms blacks' health in significant ways.…