Women respond differently than men to certain drugs and, therefore, should be aggressive in researching their medications. Women have been underrepresented in clinical drug studies, which long assumed that they respond to drugs in the same way that men do. But, in...
Medical researchers have long known that men and women differ in their susceptibility to common disease, including diabetes, heart disease and cancer....
Should you use a prescription or over-the-counter (OTC) medication that has an expiration date that has long past? To answer this question,...
Medications that are taken accidentally by young children account for an estimated 53,517 nonfatal emergency room visits each year in the...
Deaths from medication errors spike by 25% at the start of each month, according to a recent study. Presumed reason- Government checks...
My aunt recently confessed to me that she and my uncle occasionally have taken each other's medications by mistake. That...
An overdose of acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, is now the most cause of acute liver failure in the United States,...
It's Sunday night, and your child has a cough. Should you run to the pharmacy and grab a bottle of...
Just because a medication is available without a doctor's prescription doesn't mean that it's risk-free. Over-the-counter...
No one disputes the value of colonoscopies for screening for colon cancer, but a recent National Cancer Institute (NCI) report discovered that...
Certain antibiotic-resistant staph infections, called methicillin-resistant staph aureus (MRSA), that usually break out among patients that are hospitalized are increasingly originating in...
Academic medical centers are relying more on advertising to attract patients. However, because there is little oversight of these practices, many ads...