Health and Medicine

I will be eternally grateful to the family doctor who saved my father’s life. And George will never know how close he was to a needless operation

My advice. Buy a bathroom scale and step on it every day. This will help to keep you a moderate consumer of food, alcohol, and exercise. But, if the scale continues to show increasing weight?

A new method for whitening teeth is safer but just as effective as current approaches

Untangling the CRISPR cancer scare

Cleaned-out pollen grains could someday deliver medicines into the human body.

History shows that more money, more social workers, and injections sites will end in failure

I wish I knew why Bourdain, who had fame and fortune, was so depressed

Blood clot, Thrombosis, that occurs in the heart, brain or legs

Harvard Medical School is educating more students who become professors and researchers. But family physicians must still have a major role

Shark skin inspires antimicrobial surfaces

A low-cost sensor made from modified frosted glass could help doctors diagnose and monitor prostate cancer.

A new sensor could detect bad breath.

Hormone Replacement Therapy

A newly developed film could prevent bacteria from growing on dental retainers and aligners

Congestive heart failure, hypertension

In the future, a new imaging pill might eliminate the need for annual mammograms

Do large doses of vitamin C increase the risk of kidney stones?

Reactions explains the chemistry of this popular sleep aid:

A fungus from the Red Sea shows promise in developing anti-seizure drugs

Israeli scientist Rony Dahan thinks he knows why immunotherapy hasn’t reached its full potential, and he aims to do something about that

Nutmeg prevents damage to the liver

The overwhelming message is that people are fed up with politicians and their lack of sense when dealing with the drug epidemic.

Scientists could someday treat disease by inhibiting the growth of harmful gut microbes

Researchers say an inexpensive ‘electronic nose’ diagnosed breast cancer with 95% accuracy and may be used for other cancers in the future

I fear another idiocy will occur after cannabis is legal in Canada. I will still have to attend a clinic to obtain medical cannabis. But I will be able to buy recreational cannabis at any legal outlet

Turmoil in generics brings opportunity for fine chemicals firms

Parkinson's disease medication could be delivered directly to the brain by exploiting the rabies virus

There are two kinds of marijuana. The THC type creates a “high”. The other, CBD, is associated with pain control

Marijuana as “medicine” can and should be separated from marijuana the party drug, which means you can’t seriously argue that a blunt of weed is medicine in any legitimate sense