In recent years, U.S. physicians and entrepreneurs have seen some success with the development of a powerful set of personalized medicine tools to help give physicians some of the objective information they need.
While Americans never have enjoyed access to so many pharmaceutical products with such life-sustaining and lifesaving properties, these drugs also have proven to be expensive -- prohibitively so for many -- and subject to shortages.
Sleep experts believe that our 24/7 culture has created such pervasive sleep deprivation that abnormal sleepiness is the norm. Unfortunately, there is...
One in five medications used by people older than 65 are prescribed inappropriately in primary care settings, which can cause adverse reactions,
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TRENTON, N.J. -- Struggling to pay for your prescription medication?
You're far from alone: Studies show roughly a quarter of patients don't take med...
I know that prescription medications can help many people turn their health around, and I don't want to suggest that prescription drugs are all bad. But they are powerful enough to change our physiology and for this reason should not be taken lightly.
The average auto refractor--that clunky-looking device eye doctors use to pinpoint your prescription--weighs about 40 pounds, costs $10,000, and is vi...
Because of the authority with which words like "clinical depression" or "bipolar" are used in modern conversation, they are given the impression that those words have a permanence and solidity they do not actually have.
Here's a guy, who has been working hard his entire life, was laid off, lost his insurance and couldn't afford to go to see a doctor and didn't think he could afford his blood pressure medication.
These new studies once again underscore the necessity for us as parents to communicate with our pediatricians and not be afraid to ask questions when a prescription is offered.
MORE than 10 years after she tried without success to have a baby, Marcy Campbell Krinsk is still receiving painful reminders in her mail. The ads and...
"I feel like I have paid my insurance company thousands of dollars for nothing," Anne said, "and now I am going to have to drop my coverage because I just can't afford it anymore."
I understand the need to cut costs, but in my opinion, some insurance companies are practicing health care without a license. They have none of the liability and yet are part of the decision-making? What's up with that?