A popular diabetes medication appears to have significant benefits beyond simply treating the disease. Patients taking metformin — which is sold under brand names Glucophage and Fortamet — have a lowe...
The economic recession is affecting not just the marketplace, but also the mental health of thousands of Americans. Between 2008 and 2010, the rate of suicide in the United States increased 1 percent...
In the wake of the recent national meningitis outbreak, lawmakers are taking action to uncover what led to the deadly events and to prevent such a health scare from happening again in the future. Dr....
Japanese pharmaceutical company Takeda is scrambling to recover as its once top-selling diabetes drug, Actos, loses market share to generic versions and as Actos lawsuits continue to mount. Over the s...
Victims of a catastrophic storm, such as Hurricane Sandy, have many immediate needs with food, shelter and transportation. It’s critical, though, that they not put off planning for adequate medicine s...
Obese people face more risks than other patients when it comes to total knee replacement (TKR) surgery and need to have revision operations more often than other patients, according to a new study pub...
Pregnant women who are suffering from depression should avoid antidepressant drugs until their babies are born, two experienced doctors say in their paper published this week in the journal Human Repr...
To ASR Hip Replacement Patients: At DePuy, our mission for more than a century has been developing products and technologies that help patients who have been impacted by pain, disability and a loss of...
According to the best-selling health science dictionary Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary , osteoporosis is a medical condition that results in the loss of bone density/integrity that increases th...
