Tag: medicine

Before we get into the actual issues with health insurance, let's be reminded of what the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, fixed: No...

We have been seeing ads about men's junk and sexuality for years. There are commercials for erectile dysfunction drugs (Viagra, Cialis, and others). At...

We have a problem with guns in this country. We have more guns and more gun deaths than other country. Last month, we had...

On Monday, February 29, the AARP released a study reporting that drug prices for seniors doubled between 2006 and 2013. This news may be surprising...

In 2011 the Huffington Post reported that 12.7-million people discover they have cancer each year. Also, an additional 7.6-million people die from cancer each...

I don't keep my hatred of pharmaceutical corporations a secret. In a lot of respects, I liken them to oil corporations -- corrupt, profit-driven...

Even though we still have a long way to go when it comes to treating and caring for those with mental illness, a look...

Nine-year-old?Kalel Santiago has already been through the kind of medical nightmare most of us can never imagine. When he was only ten months old, Kalel...

A psychedelic substance which is brewed and consumed by?indigenous tribes of the Peruvian Amazon may hold the key to promoting the growth of insulin-producing...

Organ transplants are, it's fair to say, one of the greatest medical miracles of the past half century. Thousands of people have been saved...

Yes, you read that right. A doctor LEGALLY refused to treat a same-sex couple's 6-day-old baby. Married lesbian couple Krista and Jami Contreras got a...

A College Gives Kids Happy Little Pills   Horry Georgetown Technical College in South Carolina is apologizing for the actions of a staff member. The faculty...

Women have always been trying to find methods to avoid becoming pregnant. As long as men and women have been having sex, the pregnancy...

Between the years 1700 and 1800, smallpox would claim 60 million Europeans, five ruling monarchs, and 80% of all children afflicted with the disease....

In California, pediatricians are feeling pressure from parents to drop families who do not vaccinate in the wake of the Disney measles outbreak. Parents...

My mom has been a big fan of Doctor Oz for some time--at least since he got his own show in 2009, if not...

// // The co-founder and co-owner of a now-closed compounding pharmacy near Boston could spend the rest of his life in prison after being...

Beards are as common as Tootsie Rolls these days, but before they cycled in and out of our lives solely on the whims of...

What would happen if we saw cannabis -- marijuana -- use as an economic, medical, and science issue instead of as a moral issue?