medicine
An Indian Doctor Claims to Have Found a Herbal Cure for Coronavirus
This comes in as the country's first case of coronavirus is confirmed in Kerala.
Doctors Are Still Putting Us at Risk of Superbugs with Too Many Antibiotics
Doctors are prescribing antiobiotics in situations where they aren’t needed or for unclear reasons, when there is a very clear downside to doing so.
Millennials Are More Likely to Turn Down Healthcare for Cost Reasons
A new report shows the generation is savvy about healthcare prices... but at what cost?
Anti-Migraine Drug Won’t be Subsidised Because it's too Effective and too Many People Need it
"Aimovig" has been found to reduce the frequency and severity of migraines. But it will cost Australian patients about $800 a month.
A Testosterone Shortage Is Happening Now. Here's What You Need to Know
“We have been trying to anticipate a potential shortage as much as possible," said Zil Goldstein of Callen-Lorde. "We do have some concerns.”
This Australian Scientist Is Sending Cancer Cells Into Space to See if They Survive
Experiments on Earth suggest that cancer cells are radically affected by near-zero gravity conditions.
'Family-Friendly' Occupations for Women Are a Myth
A New York Times story pushed medicine as the ideal career for women. A closer look at data shows "better work-life balance" is actually "choosing careers that require fewer hours" and "still relatively less pay."
I Took My Mom's Online Nursing Courses for Her
She needed sleep—and more hours at her day job to help me get through my own school.
Opinion: Doctors Privately Use Cruel Words to Describe Their Patients
The field's "professional language" can be pejorative, paternalistic, and aggressive.
How Medical Memoirs Are Helping Us Understand Each Other
We spoke to young author and cardiac nurse Molly Case about her new memoir, 'How To Treat People', and how attitudes towards NHS staff have changed under austerity.
Medical Textbooks Overwhelmingly Use Pictures of Young White Men
"You shouldn't have a 20-year-old with coronary artery disease."