Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

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.

Over the past couple of decades, there has been a significant increase in the incidence of thyroid cancer throughout the world.  This phenomenon is mainly seen in “high income” countries of North America, Europe, and Asia.  In the U

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