Currently, a BMI of 30 or higher is the threshold for an obesity diagnosis, representing the largest pool of non-diabetic Medicare beneficiaries eligible for care. If insurance coverage were ...

Over the past decade, Louisiana hospitals began stocking specialized carts designed to treat hemorrhages, one of the most ...

"There is some signal there and we should follow that signal." -- John Carrino, MD, MPH, of Weill Cornell Medicine in New ...

Nichole Sims started using a tanning bed at 15 because she said everyone around her was doing it, especially before events like homecoming dances and prom. Eight years later, she was diagnosed with ...

Nearly every week, I recommend a change in diet as a first-line treatment for type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol -- the conditions that fill American clinics and account for ...

Massachusetts is on the way to giving doctors the final say on whether an abortion should be allowed late in pregnancy, a ...

A new online tracking tool from AcademyHealth shows the sprawling scope of recent grant cancellations by the Agency for ...

Antihistamines have long been used to address itch and sleep disturbances with atopic dermatitis, although clinical practice ...

Inhibiting the peripheral voltage-gated sodium channel Na v 1.8 may be a way to manage pain with little to no risk of ...

Vaginal estrogen is currently the only treatment for UTI prevention with a grade A recommendation, the authors noted. It ...

Initiation of once-daily dapagliflozin (Farxiga) 1 day prior to surgery was associated with a lower incidence of AKI at 7 ...

Some doctors are pushing to organize the 10,000 attending physicians within the University of California system, setting in ...