Medicine

Many Medicare patients don't realize they can sometimes pay less out-of-pocket for a prescription drug if they pay cash, instead of the insurance copay.

The World Health Organization also estimates that between 72,000 and 169,000 children may die each year because of substandard or fake antibiotics.

"Prices like this are bad for patients," said David Mitchell, who last year founded the nonprofit advocacy group Patients for Affordable Drugs. "They hurt patients."

Scientists have launched two large studies to test a treatment that could have an enormous impact on the leading cause of death in American hospitals — sepsis.

Until now, any operating dispensaries have been in the suburbs.

Catherine Price has Type 1 diabetes; Keysha Brooker has Type 2. As part of The Pulse’s “The Cost of Diabetes” episode, we invited them to our studio to meet.

As more states legalize marijuana, there's growing interest in a cannabis extract — cannabidiol, also known as CBD.

Shkreli was initially free on bail but was jailed in September.

Medical culture has long viewed doctors as “able-bodied in the extreme.” A growing wave of doctors with disabilities wants to challenge that.

Hospitals around the country are looking at whether patients need so many opioids prescriptions. It turns out most of them don't.

Bill sponsor Assemblyman Herb Conaway, D-Burlington, says his goal is to respect parents' religious objections but create stricter standards for exemptions.

The American College of Physicians has issued a position paper on "ethical obligations" for medical volunteers.

We recall the riots that erupted in Wilmington upon the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. fifty years ago today. Mayor Jim Kenney announce ...

Many doctors and students hide disabilities out of a real 'fear of judgment, bias, and skewed perception of ability,' a report finds.