Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

  Fasten your seat belts, this ride is about to get bumpy.  For those of you following my series on foreign bodies in the body, we made our way to the urethra and all things penis and scrotum.

The story of Liberia’s former research chimpanzees is both well-known and contentious.

When I was a child, getting chickenpox was a rite of passage. Everyone had to get it, sooner or later, and sooner was preferable.

Despite the public shaming of anti-vaxxers, the anti-vaccine movement remains fairly strong in America.

Andrew Silver, Inside Science -- Tiny robots taken into the body and controlled by brain patterns could someday help deliver medicine on demand.

Do you know what a "bezoar” is? Probably not, but you have likely heard the term "psychosomatic," which means an ailing mind can actually physically bother or impair your body.

A purportedly serious publication in a serious forum that was published this week has given rise to a

Breast cancer is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer among women (second to skin cancer) accounting for 29% of newly diagnosed cancers.

  “What is that you express in your eyes?  It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”  Well envisioned, Walt.  Whitman, that is.  

Most people have never heard of glutathione (GSH) but for some it has become the latest fad - for skin bleaching, of all things.