Disease

The MMR vaccine protects against three viral diseases: measles, mumps, and rubella, hence it's name.

High blood pressure, hypertension, is a pervasive health problem in the U.S. and globally. It consumes significant amounts of health dollars and is a co-morbidity or risk factor for many of the chronic diseases that ‘plague’ Western society.

As a vascular surgeon many of my patients had diabetes and in evaluating their surgical risk I was taught a rough rule of thumb:  the chronologic age of a patient with diabetes added to the duration of their diabetes was a good measure of the

Gender disparity, the real and the “not really” is to be found everywhere.

We've officially gone full circle. There was a time when people feared that artificial sweeteners caused cancer. (They don't.) Now, researchers claim that artificial sweeteners prevent cancer. Do they?

A new trial to assess the benefits and safety of stem cell transplantation for treatment-resistant Crohn’s disease has started.

E. coli. Salmonella. Campylobacter. Norovirus.

As I've written before, drug companies, no matter how revolutionary a discovery they make, cannot control human behavior.

Blood glucose is regulated by a network of organs inter-connected by nerves and chemical mediators some that we have identified, others we have not.

We’re all well aware of the growing threat of superbugs. There are plenty warnings about how we encourage these antibiotic-resistant bacteria by either overusing antibiotics or not finishing a prescribed course of treatment.