Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

There has been substantial publicity about the MINDACT trial, which could lead to changes in breast cancer treatment.

Location.  Location.  Location.  Everything in medicine comes down to real estate.  The closer to a vital structure in the body, the more precarious the consequence— especially when considering foreign objects where nature did

Bariatric (weight loss) surgery works. A severely obese person (BMI > 40) might lose 50 percent of his or her excess body fat in the first year after such surgery.

Over the course of the past few weeks Mylan has replaced Turing and Valeant as the most scrutinized and critiqued pharmaceutical companies in the United States.

One of the few places one might expect to find a soaring rate of gonorrhea infection is the piously conservative state of Utah.

Sometimes drugs behave very well. They do what they are supposed to so, and do it well, maybe even without side effects (1).

The rising price for EpiPens, a drug delivery system that is crucial for persons experiencing potentially life-threatening allergic reactions, has resulted in outrage.

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) today released a summary of its

One of the less appealing aspects of diabetes, especially type 1, is the requirement for

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