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.…
In 18 states, parents can choose to exempt their children from vaccines for nonmedical 'philosophical' or 'personal…
Researchers tracked adolescents' sleep and scanned their brains. As expected, better sleep went with healthy brain development.…
The new Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans have just been released, and here is the bottom line: Just move. Bike,…
Mass shootings bring terror in ways that people watching from afar can only imagine. And yet, society at large is affected,…
For many health professionals, daily practice increasingly resembles trench warfare, which took a grave toll on WWI's…
A key part of preventing secondary medical problems from diabetes involves glucose monitoring. For National Diabetes Month,…