Pharmaceuticals

Health care is decimated, leaving the region more vulnerable than ever to infectious diseases

Gaps in immunization could cause as many deaths as the current epidemic itself

There are many reasons to seek help from a dog trainer, and Cat Warren confronted almost all of them when a new puppy came barreling into her life.

The increase in prescription pain medication use might be a contributing factor

The last place anyone expects to find a designer is in a hospital, clinic or operating room, but those are exactly the spaces where I embed myself.

Stimulator devices can tweak nervous system activity to turn down inflammation or treat other effects of disease

Immune cells in mice with lupus symptoms have overactive metabolisms, so scientists inhibited two metabolic pathways and succeeded in reversing lupus symptoms in mice

A newly released CDC report focused on the Clostridium difficile bacterium, which can cause deadly diarrhea

Marijuana boosts users' appetities by changing the signals brain cells produce from sated to still hungry. Karen Hopkin reports.      

 

A look at the financial and behavioral nudges that can provide incentives for change

Although clinical guidelines assume just two years for hot flashes and night sweats, a large study finds a median symptom duration of more than three times that length. Dina Fine Maron reports 

 

We've seen the needle and the damage avoided