On March 9 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Benlysta, the first new drug approved for the treatment of lupus in 56 years.
There's been quite a bit of fear about radiation exposure due to the recent nuclear disaster in Japan. This has apparently caused folks on the West Coast of the U.S.
Protein supplement products are one of the mainstays of health food stores.
You may have seen the recent news that breast cancer recurrences and survival rates were found not to be impacted by the removal of lymph nodes in the armpit.
At long last Congress and the President took some action to improve the outdated and inefficient health care "non-system" that is exceedingly expensive even though many millions of Americans hav
Enlargement of the prostate gland, benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), is a common problem in older men.
This month, the American Heart Association is releasing updated cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention guidelines for women--outlining the progress made since a report issue
You are probably all too often confused by what you read and hear in the news about medicine and medical breakthroughs.
One of the most common severe birth defects, Down syndrome (DS), occurs in about 1 in 800 live births.
Muscle pain, and much less often muscle weakness, is a common side effect of taking the cholesterol-lowering statin drugs. The cause of the muscle symptoms is unclear and most commonly the
Recent attention to problems related to two valuable heart implant devices, stents and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators ICDs, have raised concern among physicians and the general public.
We read a lot about the benefits and risks of hormone replacement in postmenopausal women. How about replacing hormones in older men?
Although past research suggested that regular aspirin use reduced the likelihood of developing colon cancer, the findings were inconsistent. And because many of these studies were observ
Based on recent reports, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that each year one out of every six Americans becomes sick from a foodborne illness.
It is well known that genes play a role in determining who has a higher risk for cardiovascular disease, such as heart attacks and strokes.
In the U.S., high blood pressure, or hypertension, is controlled successfully in only approximately one third of people treated for this condition.
Statins have had a dramatic impact on preventing and treating coronary heart disease (CHD).
Recent new practice guidelines for the treatment of patients with major depressive disorder from the American Psychiatric Association states that electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) or electroshock
When a heart attack strikes, the absence of oxygen-containing blood damages and kills heart muscle cells.
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among men and women. The American Cancer Society predicted that approximately 219,000 new cases of lung cancer would be diagnosed in the U.S.
