Medical News

NFL announced Boston and Harvard doctor as medical adviser. Appointment comes as league struggles with concussion issue that has been highlighted by deaths, lawsuits.

New drug educational program focuses on prescription painkillers, increasingly being abused by young people. Such drugs account for 71 percent of prescription drug overdoses, figures show.

Premature babies develop problems later in life, compared to those born at full term. How do they differ from normal babies?

Researchers who reviewed trials, on which dietary recommendations on fat consumption were based, revealed that the guidelines were issued despite that these were not tested in a trial.

Doctors who were investigating the tumors growing inside a baby girl's stomach have found that strange masses were twin fetuses weighing 14.2 grams and 9.3 grams respectively.

The HPV vaccine may introduce the idea of sex early but it does not cause promiscuous behavior, according to researchers.

Achillion Pharmaceuticals shows rapid progress in the development of a new drug that aims to treat patients with hepatitis C within a six-week treatment period.

Blood glucose monitoring will soon be possible using the upcoming Apple Watch. How does it work?

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(The Gerontological Society of America) The Association for Gerontology in Higher Education -- the educational branch of The Gerontological Society of America -- will hold its 41st Annual Meeting and Educational Leadersh...

(University of Adelaide) In a breakthrough discovery, researchers at the University of Adelaide have revealed how damage from obesity is passed from a mother to her children, and also how that damage can be reversed.

(University Hospitals Case Medical Center) The second annual Harrington Prize for Innovation in Medicine has been awarded to oncologist/researcher Douglas R. Lowy, M.D., Chief, Laboratory of Cellular Oncology, and Deputy...