Johnson & Johnson said on Monday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the company's blockbuster psoriasis drug, Stelara, for use in adults with Crohn's disease.
When Phoebe Harrington and her husband, Benjamin Dumas, welcomed their newborn Benji in 2015, they believed he was born perfectly healthy but soon noticed something was awry.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced Saturday that it was investigating a multistate outbreak linked to packaged red meat that may be contaminated with E. coli.
When she was younger, Tryphena Natukunda's mother discouraged her from swallowing her antiretroviral medicines among strangers or even distant relatives.
The University of Vermont College of Medicine is changing the way physicians are trained by switching exclusively to a hands-on approach to learning designed to encourage students to solve medical puzzles rather than just memorizing body parts and diseases.
The idea is simple: Load fresh fruits and vegetables into a refrigerator truck and drive it to a health clinic, then have a doctor write a "prescription" for food to improve the diets of low-income people with diabetes and high blood pressure.
First responders in U.S. communities reeling from waves of heroin overdoses say some people tell them they should just say no to using so many resources on drug abusers.
Susan Kolar, of Rochester, Minnesota knew something wasn’t right last year when she missed her period for three months, but multiple pregnancy tests gave negative results.
One of only a handful of physicians in the country who is board-certified in Family Medicine and Pain Medicine, Gary Kaplan, DO, author of Total Recovery and founder of The Kaplan Center for Integrative Medicine, was able to apply his pioneering perspective to help answer one of the most difficult questions plaguing our country: What is causing my pain?
If you’re struggling with infertility or worried about your ability to get pregnant, you already know how important it is to be healthy in order to conceive.
The conventional dietary wisdom for the past quarter century has been “eat less, move more,” referring to reducing caloric intake and increasing exercise.
Health officials in eastern Nigeria say they have started to administer polio vaccines to children at military checkpoints in an attempt to stop the spread of the crippling disease.