Harm Reduction

There's something going on in the San Diego area – and it centers around a whole lot more people lowering their risk for a heart attack.

Smoking is a pediatric disease, people who get hooked as kids are going to end up as chronic smokers, and that is why the American Council on Science and Health was the first to note it is a pediatric disease and target efforts at putting a halt t

The rate of Caesarian sections (C-Section) continues to increase globally despite efforts to standardize their use through education and guidelines.

Non-communicable diseases are often associated with our behavior; tobacco remains the poster child and efforts at reduction in its use has provided lessons on how to affect similar change for other health concerns.

Sometimes a remedy to a catastrophic health emergency is so simple, so straightforward, that it's truly mind-boggling when that precaution is not being implemented.

In a story that speaks for itself, King Bio has issued a voluntary nationwide recall out of “an abundance of caution” of thirty-two kids and infant products that could be contaminated

Two articles in the last few weeks caught my eye, the first, once again looking at predicting disease based on our genes, the modern-day equivalent to reading animal bones; the second a cautionary analysis of how labels frame our medical conversat

In the year of using condoms not how they were intended, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) felt compelled to raise public awareness about why they exist in the first place and remind people how they should actually be used.

Congratulation to the state of Massachusetts for raising the legal age to purchase tobacco products and cigarettes to 21, from 18. Gov.

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement, TAVR, is a far-less invasive means of replacing the heart valve connecting the heart with the aorta, the body’s main artery.