Disease

Anti-vaxxers insist that measles is just a harmless childhood infection. After the Disneyland outbreak, anti-vaxxers derided public health concerns by referring to it as "Mickey Mouse Measles." The facts indicate otherwise.

A new report published in BMJ Journal: Injury Prevention opts to reframe how we interpret data on preventable, premature deaths by using an “en

The MMR vaccine protects against three viral diseases: measles, mumps, and rubella, hence it's name.

High blood pressure, hypertension, is a pervasive health problem in the U.S. and globally. It consumes significant amounts of health dollars and is a co-morbidity or risk factor for many of the chronic diseases that ‘plague’ Western society.

As a vascular surgeon many of my patients had diabetes and in evaluating their surgical risk I was taught a rough rule of thumb:  the chronologic age of a patient with diabetes added to the duration of their diabetes was a good measure of the

Gender disparity, the real and the “not really” is to be found everywhere.

We've officially gone full circle. There was a time when people feared that artificial sweeteners caused cancer. (They don't.) Now, researchers claim that artificial sweeteners prevent cancer. Do they?

A new trial to assess the benefits and safety of stem cell transplantation for treatment-resistant Crohn’s disease has started.

E. coli. Salmonella. Campylobacter. Norovirus.

As I've written before, drug companies, no matter how revolutionary a discovery they make, cannot control human behavior.