DROP YOUR CELL PHONE NOW!!!!111! (don't send me the bill for the replacement) I'm sure others will cover more of the scientific details, but science aside, we should...

MedHelp announced today a collaboration with Johns Hopkins Medicine, where specialists from Johns Hopkins will personally answer questions on a number of health topics on...

Quitting is on the minds of young smokers well before full-blown addiction sets in, according to a new study from Canada. "Kids begin to think about quitting very soon...

Drexel University's plasma medicine technologies were licensed to Plasma Technologies, Inc.(PTI), a Texas-based company that intends to design, patent and market medical...

Absence may make the heart grow fonder, but endurance exercise seems to make it younger. According to a study conducted at Washington University School of Medicine in St....

Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York have found that sorafenib (Nexavar) helps patients with advanced liver cancer live about 44 percent longer...

The folks at bloggingheads.tv whoring for some link love sent me an interesting link. They had a talking heads session ("diavlog"---damn, that's hard to say) between...

Hardly anyone wants to endorse means-testing but almost everyone is for it.  Of course Medicaid, food stamps, HUD housing assistance, and many other programs are...

Unintended consequences of foreign aid often plague beneficent giving. A study published in the open-access journal PLoS Medicine has found that loans to former Soviet...

A report by scientists from The Netherlands published online in The FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org) identifies a compound in human saliva that greatly speeds wound...

Enough with Radovan Karadzic, already! I know schadenfreude can be a fun thing. I've even indulged in it myself from time to time. I also know that Radovan Karadzic was...

In this post: the large versions of the Education & Careers and Medicine & Health channel photos, comments from readers, and the best posts of the week. Medicine &...

I'm envious of Steve Novella. Well, just a little, anyway. The reason is that he's somehow managed to annoy David Kirby and the anti-vaccine contingent enough to provoke...

Harvard Medical School recently completed a review of their required premedical curriculum, culminating with the development of recommended changes.  The outcome of...

Ekkyo (formerly known as Heatwave Technology) a photomedicine company, which develops first-in-class laser-based systems for skin scar prevention and reduction,...

Apparently, a surgeon has been committing battery on his patients by applying temporary tattoos to their bodies while they are unconscious during surgery. Given the way...

The lack of effective regulatory controls on practitioners of alternative medicine has created one more problem: a safe cover for war criminals. Technorati Tags:...

The FDA has found one match for the recent spate of Salmonella outbreaks and sickness in a jalapeno pepper that was packed at a facility in Texas. So perhaps it ...

Some nice advances in dental care coming soon. One new technique uses a special mouthwash that can actually fill holes in teeth and help new enamel to grow....

A few readers have written me or asked in the comments why I am not so crazy about HSAs.  From the past, read here and here, and here, or here is an index of...