Medical News

By Alan Lyndon “We are giving ourselves cancer.” That’s according to an article in today’s New York Times written by a radiologist and a cardiologist from ...

Results from a new Medscape survey show that doctors may not practice what they preach, which can lead to a disconnected patient-physician relationship. Medscape’s 2014 ...

By L. Michael Hone Clinical diagnosis of melanoma and other skin cancers is still performed primarily by sight. Since even the most sophisticated eye is ...

Researchers from Weill Cornell Medical College have shown that the presence of a particular protein in biopsied prostate tissue substantially increases the likelihood that cancer ...

By Seth Lederman, M.D. While there are about six million people living with fibromyalgia syndrome (FM) in the United States, only about half are currently ...

By Dr. Maitland DeLand November is National Diabetes Awareness Month, and according to the American Diabetes Association, more than 200,000 American children are living with ...

PHILADELPHIA, PA – The Pennsylvania Medical Society “Docs on Call” program features physician members answering questions and discussing medical concerns with CBS-3 viewers. The public ...

By Scot Chadwick During the week of October 14-18, the Pennsylvania state House Health Committee is scheduled to consider House Bill 1649. This bill would allow the ...

Dear Speaker Boehner, Representative Pelosi, Senator Reid and Senator McConnell: Congress has reached a critical stage in its stewardship of the American economy and federal ...

By Curtis T. Miyamoto, MD Over the last several weeks, I have heard a number of physicians tell me that either they or colleagues that they ...