Acetaminophen, one of the most consumed drugs in the US – and the most commonly taken analgesic worldwide – could be doing a lot more than simply taking the edge off your headache, new evidence suggests.

When you visit your doctor, you might assume that the treatment they prescribe has solid evidence to back it up. But you'd be wrong. Only one in ten medical treatments are supported by high-quality evidence, our latest research shows.

Doctors, airport workers and hotel staff are using high-tech machines to help contain the outbreak that has been sweeping the world since it first appeared in Wuhan, China, in late December.

Digital phenotyping, which can detect patterns from text messages, movements, and even our speech, could transform health care. But is our personal information at stake?

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Newfoundland has recorded its first death from coronavirus, while an Ontario care facility for seniors continues to be hard hit. Elsewhere, Spain has joined Italy and the United States as the only countries in the world to exceed China's recorded count of COVID-19 cases. Get the latest on what's happening around the world and in Canada.

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The coronavirus pandemic has developed so quickly that the key people involved in dealing with it -- including medical staff, scientists, and governments -- are still struggling to find the resources to do so effectively. One key issue that has...

U.S. pharmacy chains are preparing a big push for flu vaccinations when the season kicks off in October, hoping to curb tens of thousands of serious cases that could coincide with a second wave of coronavirus infections.

A new generation of clean, quick and convenient single-person electric vehicles could be just what Asia needs to get commuters to leave their cars behind for public transport. Vaidehi Shah explores...

An advisory panel to the F.D.A. recommended approving alirocumab, which drastically reduces LDL cholesterol levels and could protect against heart attacks.

Trade supporters scored a critical victory on Thursday, when the U.S. House narrowly voted, TK-TK, to begin debate on a trio of trade bills set to receive votes Thursday. The vote paves the way...

He expected doctors to perform a miracle. When they couldn’t, he sought revenge at the Brigham. Are hospitals the new front line in the escalating battle between patients and healthcare? Stephen Pasceri was insistent. The 55-year-old accountant, clad in khakis and a snug sweater that hugged his belly, stood at the reception desk in the gleaming lobby of the Shapiro Cardiovascular Center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital on January 20, quietly demanding to see...

Here are two fascinating charts from the recent NBER working paper by Mariacristina De Nardi and colleagues. Both are average, per person total health care spending by type of service, the first by a

Novartis plans to test a novel pricing model with some customers when it launches its keenly awaited new heart failure drug Entresto, the Swiss company's head of pharmaceuticals said on

What if your loved one were sick. Maybe dying. And a drug still being tested might, or might not, help. How far would you go to get it?

A ProPublica analysis of nearly 17,000 surgeons finds stark differences in complications rates for some of the most routine elective procedures.

Abandoned and derelict morgues and mortuaries are always really interesting places to photograph! One of my favourite places to photograph are Hospitals and old Asylums and so I have stumbled upon a couple in the few years I have been exploring. It's hard to put a finger on what exactly makes these rooms, which were built for the purpose of carving up and storing dead bodies, so morbidly intriguing but I still get a little excited when I enter a new morgue that I haven't seen before...

Senior U.S. health officials have squelched a Food and Drug Administration proposal that for the first time would have curbed dentists’ use of mercury – one of the planet’s nastiest toxins because it attacks the central nervous system – in treating Americans’ decayed teeth.