Experts say that doctors, despite the dangers, often keep patients on high-strength painkillers known as opioids for years without properly checking to see if their conditions improve.

Whether you have a head cold, an upset stomach, or an itchy rash, fast (cheap!) relief may be sitting on your pantry shelf.

Doctors more frequently made a diagnosis of obesity when a patient’s weight was higher than their own, and overweight doctors were less likely to believe a patient would follow diet advice.

A study found that more patients needed surgery to fix or replace metal hips compared with artificial joints made from ceramic or plastic.

Who wants to practice medicine in a country where they use power tools in surgery? The dilemma of doctors in the developing world.

The study showed that patients made progress when taking the medicine. If replicated, the improvements could offer doctors a standard treatment, experts say.

Doctors’ leaders are holding an emergency meeting to consider balloting for industrial action.

We all want to think of medicine as an honorable profession and that the people in it work with integrity, but a new survey shows that may not be exactly true.

Doctors studying to become dermatologists have, for years, shared exam questions by memorizing and writing them down after the test to become board certified, CNN has confirmed.

The cold hard reality is that America does not need to reform health care, it needs to transform health care, Dr. Otis Brawley says.