From the worst nightmare files: The FDA is urging hospitals to change infusion systems after learning that the by unauthorized users who change the dose the pump delivers.
Four people are dead and 71 infected from a outbreak in the South Bronx as public health officials intensify the search for the source of the infection, which is spread through airborne water droplets. (The New York Times)
After viewing an infographic from the there may be fewer people would "like to buy the world a Coke." But the "info-graphic" has been slammed for a lack of science to back-up its claims and Huffington Post responded with its own infographic showing what happens to the body
an icon of reproductive medicine who brought in vitro fertilization to the United States, died Friday. Jones, who along with his wife Georgeanna Jones, MD, established the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School, also opened the first sex-change clinic at an American hospital.
Another pioneer of medicine dies: , a thoracic surgeon who helped develop CPR, last Tuesday at age 87.
Cuts to programs are adding to Puerto Rico's economic distress and may trigger a healthcare crisis on the island, reports The New York Times.
No sex for you, Grandpa! Medicare, which has long refused to pay for erectile dysfunction drugs, is now also refusing payment for .
Bayer Healthcare said the FDA approved its for topical treatment of mild to moderate rosacea.
In a Boston Globe op-ed, Harvard's Steven Pinker takes umbrage at those who claim we need to to review ethical concerns. The true moral imperative, he says, is this: "Get out of the way."
Heed the message in the song Perfectionists have a in multiple facets of their lives.
say they are now working together to "discover and develop antisense drugs for cardiovascular, renal and metabolic diseases."
The New York Times reports that as , consumers are doubtful.
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