Disturbing news regarding elementary school children: Suicide rates have not improved over the past 20 years.  We’re talking about kids ages 5-11 years old, who ...

NEW YORK — You can’t tell by looking which med students at Mount Sinai were traditional pre-meds in college and which weren’t. And that’s exactly ...

(HealthDay News) — Demi Lovato huddled in the back of her tour bus, eyes wet with tears as she watched a horde of fans streaming ...

By Brent Boyett, D.O., D.M.D. In the quest for effective treatment of opioid addiction, it is important that doctors focus not only on providing behavioral ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Physician-assisted suicide is illegal in all but five states. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen in the rest. Sick patients sometimes ...

(HealthDay News) — Botox injections might do more than simply paralyze facial muscles to create a more youthful appearance. New research suggests the anti-aging treatments ...

By Louis M. Profeta, MD I don’t care if your eight year old can throw a baseball through six inches of plywood. He is not going ...

(HealthDay News) — In unventilated rooms or vehicles, secondhand marijuana smoke can affect people who aren’t smoking the drug, a new study finds. In those ...

By Dr. Seth Flam A great deal of debate over whether EHRs actually are improving patient care has occurred over the last few years, and ...

(HealthDay News) — Almost one out of every five young women was raped or experienced attempted rape during her freshman year at a large private ...