Testosterone replacement therapy is now a multi-billion dollar business. Treating a condition, propagated by marketers as "low T" or "manopause," carries the risk of serious adverse cardiovascular outcomes and other concerning side effects.

An Englishwoman named Laura Plummer is in jail in Egypt on suspicion of drug trafficking 290 tramadol tablets. The tablets (available on prescription in the UK) were found in her suitcase when it was examined at Hurghada international airport on Egypt’s Red Sea coast on October 9.

Person-centered counseling is one of the most popular treatments for mental health problems. Often just shortened to “counseling”, the approach focuses on how patients view themselves in the here and now, rather than how a therapist interprets their unconscious thoughts. And the patient takes the lead in finding solutions to their own problems.

The International Agency for Research on Cancer is suffering through a period of critical upheaval, with ethical breaches of one of its environmental activists having been exposed. Meanwhile, IARC's posturing may get its funding pulled.

Statistics are an essential piece of scientific experimentation. Here, we discuss an almost 100 year old landmark experiment that separated a guessing game from a proven ability. In doing so, it established the statistical standard that scientists still use today. 

The world of interventional cardiology was rocked recently when optimal medical management was found to be as effective as opening the artery with a stent. Yet a significant factor in the study – that went overlooked by the media – was that the patients serving as controls underwent sham surgery. It included all of the cutting and none of the cure.

Before media outlets start scaring you about another infectious disease, learn some important facts.

Arthritis is not only for old folks. If you badly injure your knee, regardless of age, you stand a significant chance of being afflicted with the condition, too. Based on new research soon to be published, the chance of developing arthritis within a decade of tearing a tendon or a ligament is greater than 50 percent.

Can dancers teach us something about how we experience ourselves, as well as others? Do they possess a special sense of themselves through their bodies?

A new study published in JAMA indicates that people who make emergency room visits for pain do just as well with Advil as they do with an opiate. Or do they? The pain devil is in the details.