Medicine
Medicine has to do with diseases and conditions that affect the entire body. In this section, learn about testing and treatment plans including the medicines used to prevent and treat a range of diseases and conditions.
Why are residents of Colorado responding to their recreational marijuana access differently than out-of-towners?
Breakthrough in 3-D Bioprinting Gets Us Closer to Organ Donors Being Obsolete
Right now if you need a new organ, you have to wait around until one is available. A new development puts us closer to a future where living tissue can be made to order.
Viewing Your Body as an Ecosystem Could Help Personalize Medical Care
If we look at not just our own cells, but the microbiome of bacteria living in and on us, humans could better understand our own bodies.
Is the Affordable Care Act Changing the Ties Between Doctors and Big Pharma?
In the U.S., drug companies can't legally pay doctors to prescribe their drugs, but they do find ways to put money in doctors' pockets. Will the ACA change this?
It's not easy to treat a person who's hemorrhaging. Especially if that person isn't near a hospital. A cool, new tool could change the outcome of that scenario.
A study shows gastric bypass surgery helps 'skinny' gut microbes flourish. Could this pave the way for a weight-loss pill?
Diagnosing Disease Before It Begins, With a Little Help From Your T-cells
Sometimes doctors are just too late. What if diseases could be identified before symptoms strike?
Docs are no different from the rest of us — they bring their unconscious biases into the workplace. But is there a way to lessen the impact of these biases on patients?
Goodbye, scary needles! Microneedle patches could ease needle fears and help boost vaccination rates.
It may sound crazy initially — using a tooth to repair eyesight — but it's a very real surgery with a pretty impressive track record.
Bee stings hurt, so it seems like an odd proposition to get them on purpose. Believe it or not, the venom that makes that sting may also benefit humans in therapy.
You've got chest pain you can't ignore, so you head off to the emergency room. On the way, you notice the hospital posts its ER wait time on a billboard. But is the posted time really how long you'll wait?
You really liked that ER doctor who stitched up your arm. That is until you got your bill. Turns out the doctor was out of your insurance network, even though the hospital's ER is in network. How does that happen?
We all know a trip to the emergency room is never quick, but sometimes the ER is so jam-packed that you think that you're in the country's busiest ER. So just where is America's busiest ER? Well, it depends on who you ask.
You just broke your arm, and you're flat broke. But you don't worry about getting medical treatment, because the doctors and nurses in the ER have to treat everyone who walks through the door. Or do they?
Help! You just cut your hand while chopping vegetables. On the way to the hospital you cringe because you know that ER bill is going to be unbelievable. Why is that?
During a medical emergency, your only thought is getting to the ER as fast as possible. The last thing on your mind is figuring out what kind of insurance the doctor accepts. We can help.
You've got health insurance. Congratulations! But good luck finding a primary care doctor. There are a lot fewer of them these days, so you may end up using that shiny, new insurance card in an emergency room.
We all know what to do in case of a medical emergency (get to the ER), but are you really qualified to recognize a true emergency when it happens?
You have to go to the ER, but you don't have health insurance. You're not worried, though, because emergency rooms have to treat everyone who walks through the doors. But does that mean you get out of paying the costs you incur?
When you're headed to the ER, you're probably a little too busy to ponder the difference between it and a trauma center. But there are differences between the two that you should know.
When a winter storm, tornado or hurricane happens, people start flooding emergency rooms (ERs) at hospitals. So, if the hospital didn't know how to handle the influx, chaos would break out.
Sometimes it's a lot easier to just take that expired cold medicine than run out to the drugstore when you're feeling sick. But are those expired meds even working? Or, worse, are they causing you harm?
If you get stung by a jellyfish, you might be reminded of how some friends on a certain '90s TV show handled it. Should you follow suit?
There's an assortment of medications on the market to treat depression. But many of them are also effective for managing other health issues.
