Popular Medicine Stories

Mate Coca is the most powerful tea of all world. It is unique to Peruvian culture.

September 28 is World Heart Day. It’s “a call to action to help people better understand their personal risk for cardiovascular disease, including hypertension (high blood pressure).”

Anorexics can be male, old, Latino, black or pregnant. A new book undercuts old stereotypes.

The FDA recently listed 20 drugs their currently looking into that may cause life-threatening side effects.

Liz Spikol gives her 2 cents about the mental health care system/criminal justice system as they relate to this particular sad case.

A measure that would decriminalize minor marijuana-possession cases is on the ballot in Massachusetts largely because of one man: billionaire financier and liberal activist George Soros.

To do list: improve mental health

A new study has found that mothers who delivered vaginally compared to caesarean section delivery were significantly more responsive to the cry of their own baby, identified through MRI brain scans two to four weeks after delivery.

Mr. Jackson is on a mission to protect drug addicts from HIV, for which he tested positive in 1990 after sharing needles to shoot heroin and crack cocaine.

You may think that I am being needlessly pedantic, but this has been an extremely popular film and this scene will influence many people’s perceptions of what it is to have a serious mental illness.