A recent cross-sectional study involving 804 volunteers and data from the 2016 National Health and Nutrition Survey found a high prevalence of metabolic syndrome among Mexican […]

Social media’s effects on the mental health of young people are not well understood. That hasn’t stopped Congress, state legislatures, and the US Surgeon General from […]

Experts are debating whether and how to define obesity, but clinicians’ attitudes and behavior toward patients with obesity don’t seem to be undergoing similar scrutiny. “Despite […]

WASHINGTON — Immunoglobulin E (IgE) and eosinophils appeared to be reliable biomarkers of type 2 inflammation in chronic pruritus of unknown origin (CPUO) and predictors of […]

Jeffrey E. Janis, MD, is on a mission. The professor of plastic surgery, surgery, neurosurgery, and neurology at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, […]

A meta-analysis of 38 studies found that nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) is twice as prevalent in female teenagers as it is in men in North America and […]

For years, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has been a lifesaving treatment for patients with treatment-resistant depression (TRD), yet exactly how it works has largely remained a mystery. […]

The rate of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) is rising among women in Canada, while the morbidity associated with them is falling, according to findings of […]

Patients experiencing memory problems often come to neurologist David Jones, MD, for second opinions. They repeat questions and sometimes misplace items. Their primary care clinician has […]