Recently, The Wall Street Journal reported on an agreement between Google and the faith-based health care organization Ascension, a Catholic hospital network. The agreement gives the company access to tens of millions of personal health…

An article in The New York Times highlights a sea change in medical tourism: It has now been approved by some insurance plans.

Information in this space is normally drawn from multiple sources; however, after reading Bottle of Lies by Katherine Eban I decided to make an exception.

There is a new type of antibiotic resistance, and it comes from an unexpected source.

There is a rash of data theft. The New York Times detailed one such incident involving the hijacking of systems data and more than 100 years of municipal records from a Florida city.

Used in therapy for more than 100 years in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, bacteriophages are viruses that parasitize a bacterium by infecting it and reproducing.

We all deal with pain, that of our patients, our loved ones and our own.

An article in The Wall Street Journal details plans by a number of large corporations to choose the physicians to be included in their health care plans with the stated goals of improving patient outcomes and reducing health care costs.

A recent article in the Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology raises concerns about the use of dental floss containing polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) — perhaps best known by the trade name Teflon.

Significant changes in the way we diagnose and treat diseases are on the horizon.