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While it may be cause for cheating in Major League Baseball, misuse of stimulants seems to be more accepted among Ivy League students. A new ...

A routine, but highly sensitive, blood test may be able to detect cancer.  Researchers from Stanford University School of Medicine have found a way to ...

By Mary Agnes Carey The Obama administration took a victory lap Tuesday as enrollment through the health law’s exchanges topped 7 million, a goal previously thought ...

First observed in 1933, and formally designated in 1990 by President George H.W. Bush, National Doctors’ Day commemorates the date – March 30, 1842 – on which ...

By Brad Broker Last Friday was Match Day and it was a great year for those medical students being placed into their residency programs of ...

By Brad Broker Astronauts landing on the moon, the Holocaust, Seinfeld’s ‘magic loogie’ version of the assassination of John F. Kennedy.  What do all of ...

By Brad Broker Even on a slow day, there’s probably news about ADHD.  Today, there are dozens of media reports regarding the use of stimulants ...

By Brad Broker Turns out, the “five-second rule” — that justified reasoning for the clumsy eater who doesn’t want to sacrifice any of those french ...

By Alan Lyndon A New Jersey court has ruled that a woman about to give birth has control of the delivery room and can choose ...

By Brad Broker If you’ve ever experienced the throbbing, debilitating pain of a migraine headache, then relief may be on the way. The Food and ...