Medicine

Injecting drugs can cause serious, life-threatening wounds. As the drug crisis escalates, some clinics are teaching simple techniques to reduce the risk of infection.

The “illusion of protrusion” makes for a realistic nipple tattoo.

Forty-five states and the DOJ are claiming that generic drug prices are fixed, and the alleged collusion may have cost U.S. business and consumers more than $1 billion.

Pennsylvania's budding medical marijuana dispensaries have just about run out of pot.

Over the past week, 1,521 more Delawareans were diagnosed with the flu, bringing the total number of cases in the state to 5,758. There also were five flu-related deaths.

As of Wednesday, 87 Delaware inmates have been diagnosed with the flu within the past two to three weeks.

Chief medical officer of new Pennsylvania dispensary is hoping doctors will begin recommending medical marijuana for patients instead of more addictive opioids.

Scientists have found a correlation between medical students engaging in the arts and humanities and showing qualities of openness, wisdom and empathy.

A millennial mom wants a black pediatrician for her girls and wrestles with why the search was so hard — and why finding a black doctor matters.

A new feature of the next iPhone operating system lets patients store information about medication, allergies, and lab results on their phones.

If a national version of this bill is approved, terminally ill patients could try experimental treatments that have completed some testing but don’t yet have FDA approval.

"I just signed your death warrant," Judge Rosemarie Aquilina said, in her Lansing, Mich., courtroom.

The Division of Conscience and Religious Freedom will protect workers who refuse procedures like abortion, or treat certain people, like transgender patients.

Settlement funds will go to 12,000 Aetna subscribers. The fact they were taking HIV medication was revealed through an envelope window in correspondence from the insurer.

There's no way to predict what strain of the shape-shifting flu virus could trigger another pandemic or, given modern medical tools, how bad it might be.