Martha Garcia

A new study suggests that suffering even a mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) increases the likelihood a person will begin withdrawing from

Women are increasingly being diagnosed with breast cancer at a younger age, likely due to new screening guidelines. However, minorities have not benefited from lower breast cancer death rates like white women have.

Many popular and commonly used cancer drugs, like Keytruda, Opdivo and other immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), may increase the risk of

Doctors are being urged by a leading pediatric organization to consider using medications that are less addictive than opioids to help children handle pain.

Although doctors report that men and women experience similar surgical complication rates after complex procedures, new research suggests

New York Times investigative report reveals that the manufacturer of the Alzheimer’s disease drug Leqembi failed to inform test subjects that they had genetic markers making them more susceptible to brain bleeds and death if they took the medication.

A new CDC report warns that private hot tubs on some cruise ships may not be disinfected as thoroughly as public ones, contributing to a number of Legionnaires disease outbreaks in recent years.

A new study indicates that many of the same nursing homes that charge Medicare for conditions that patients don't have, so as to illegally

Researchers warn that thyroid cancer has been overdiagnosed worldwide for decades, resulting in unnecessary treatments for many patients.

For decades, doctors have called for a “wait and see” approach for treatment of failing heart valves, thinking that transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) surgery was too risky.