Medicine

Dr. Edward S. Cooper talks about his own medical legacy in the field of stroke research and treatment, and what more needs to be done to lessen the health gap for Black Americans.

Dr. Cooper recalls one life-threatening experience during his internship at the Philadelphia General Hospital that shaped his approach to patient care and medicinal treatment.

The research, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, suggested the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine worked to neutralize the so-called N501Y mutation.

While a new price transparency rule is aimed at helping consumers shop around for services, it isn’t without challenges.

The emirate’s first batch of the Pfizer vaccines landed at Dubai International Airport late Tuesday night from Brussels.

The world has must be vigilant while the Covid vaccine is rolled out as it will take time for population immunity to be achieved, says Soumya Swaminathan from WHO.

Understanding your FSA is important. Here’s what you need to know and what unexpected items are eligible.

“We believe that this product will never be licensed in the U.S.,” one group of critical U.S.-based analysts wrote this week.

In future, artificial intelligence will help to diagnose patients and develop the medicine required at “very low costs,” says venture capitalist Tim Draper.

A coronavirus vaccine won’t be the silver bullet to end the pandemic, Singaporean minister Lawrence Wong said despite “promising” news from pharmaceutical firms.

Americans Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice, and British-born scientist Michael Houghton were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology on Monday for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus, a major source of liver disease that affects millions worldwide.

New Jersey-based emergency room doctor Michele Harper speaks out about racism in the ER in her new book, “The Beauty in Breaking.”

Several authors of a large study that raised safety concerns about malaria drugs for coronavirus patients have retracted the report

A California biotech company says its experimental drug remdesivir improved symptoms when given for five days to moderately ill, hospitalized patients with COVID-19

The next time you get sick, your care may involve a form of the technology people use to navigate road trips or pick the right vacuum cleaner online. Artificial intelligence is spreading into health care, often as software or a computer program capable of learning from large amounts of data and making predictions to guide care or help patients. It...

A former Pennsylvania pediatrician was sentenced to at least 79 years in prison on Monday for the sexual assault of 31 children, most of them patients, in a case that state medical regulators failed to act on nearly two decades ago.

Maureen Pacheco has sued Ramon Vazquez, who was responsible for cutting Pacheco open in 2016 so two orthopedic surgeons, Dr. John Britt and Dr. Jeffrey Kugler, could perform the back operation.

A doctor known for performing Brazilian Butt Lift procedures wants back in the operating room. Dr. Osak Omulepu’s attorney has filed an appeal after the Florida Board of Medicine voted to revoke his license in April.