What's the best state in which to practice medicine? Though a recent study does little to answer the question given the metrics chosen, the result provides a starting point to help guide your thinking on this subject.

It's hardly news that opioid drugs have a downside, even though many people have no choice but to use them. But just suppose you could exit surgery without needing any pain meds at all? Well, sometimes you can, thanks to the sciences of chemistry and drug formulation. A long-lasting drug that blocks pain may be the answer.

Let's discuss the opioid crisis from a physician-prescriber perspective, and what surgeons can do now to help our patients.

The Missouri Court of Appeals reversed a jury's decision that awarded $72 million to a plaintiff who claimed Johnson & Johnson's talcum powder products caused her ovarian cancer. But the court's ruling was based on a jurisdictional issue, not the lack of scientific evidence underpinning her claim.

Your teenager's lack of sleep might be linked to the ubiquitous smartphone. That's the conclusion drawn by researchers at San Diego State University following a meta-analysis involving 360,000 American teens surveyed between 2009-2015. They say decreasing sleep time likely comes at the expense of increasing screen time.

A mixed success record, abuse, regulatory mismanagement, and unintended consequences. Combined, these make the case that the Endangered Species Act is not working as intended. It must adapt or face extinction.

The recent wildfires in northern California caused dozens of deaths, with most being those over age 65. Diminution of mobility and hearing acuity, for example, make older folks more vulnerable during natural disasters such as fast-moving fires, floods and earthquakes.

Two organic chemists in China are in all sorts of trouble after being charged with running factories that make fentanyl, the drug this is killing Americans in droves, and its stronger chemical cousins. The chemists based their choice of drugs to make upon the legality of the drug in the US. Most of them are now legal. Here's why.

Isn't it odd that Florida has so many people living with Alzheimer's? If Erin Brockovich was investigating the case, she probably would conclude that it's something to do with the water.

Hey, UCI administrators ... in the wake of receiving your recent $200 million gift, there's something pretty basic that you're still not getting. When it comes to alternative medicines you can't choose selectively among them. You're either practicing medicine or you're practicing something else. What's it going to be?