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In healthcare, a warm heart is no substitute for a trained mind. Banned Australian naturopath Barbara O’Neill built a global ...

A new study shows that, at least for antibiotic therapy, nearly 30% of patients “misrepresent” symptoms to get the ...

A cohort of environmental groups has run a panic-inducing campaign against a remarkably useful class of chemicals known as ...

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For more than a decade, several published studies in academic journals have concluded that opioids offer little long-term ...

November's birthstone has a dirty little secret. Much of the brilliant blue topaz sold in jewelry stores doesn't come out of ...

AI can outperform physicians on a diagnostic test, but what happens when the patient forgets a symptom, the tests disagree, and the disease is still unfolding? A new study moves beyond the medical ...

Propofol is a remarkable anesthetic. One minute you're counting backward from 100; the next, you're waking up wondering why the nurses are laughing their asses off. Somewhere along the way, your brain ...

Harvard Medical School just hosted a panel of "body positivity" activists, giving them a platform to deny the harms of obesity and attack doctors for "fat shaming." The event featured zero physicians ...

Diesel used to be cheaper than gasoline. Not anymore. Both fuels come from the same crude oil, so why the big price ...

Measles was once a public health success story, eliminated from the United States more than a quarter-century ago. Now, with cases surging, vaccination rates falling, and the nation's elimination ...