Researcher says doctor's lead treatments dealt lethal blow to Beethoven
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Did someone kill Beethoven? A Viennese pathologist asserts that the composer's physician did -- inadvertently overdosing him with lead in a cure that went wrong.
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The 36-year-old Illinois woman who died last month after being treated with an experimental gene therapy was infected with a fungus that usually causes only a mild illness. But the infection spun out of control and ravaged her organs, suggesting that her immune system was seriously impaired, said...
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Doctors are told too many patients have been let down by poor use of freeze therapy to remove diseased tissue.
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This article was reported by Barry Meier, Gina Kolata and Andrew Pollack and written by Mr. Meier. In the mid-1990&#39;s, the medical community reached an inescapable conclusion.
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A government scientist had concluded last year that most antidepressants are too dangerous for children because of a suicide risk and a new study appears to confirm his findings.
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An unexpected number of deaths among patients receiving intense therapy to lower their blood sugar forced the National Institutes of Health to abruptly cut short part of a major study on diabetes and heart disease
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A professor in England challenges some widely held assumptions about Beethovenâs sonatas.
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People who have frequent migraines are also more likely to develop brain damage, according to research published yesterday. Richard Lipton, a professor at New York&#39;s Albert Einstein College of Medicine, said
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Boston University confirmed that three researchers who fell ill last year had been exposed to a potentially lethal bacterium, and a local health official said the city should have been notified sooner.
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Edward Mooney had a weak spot on his largest blood vessel that he knew too well could burst and kill him almost instantly: That's how both his parents died. His doctor offered an experimental fix, using tiny corkscrew-shaped staples to patch the artery.
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A public-health doctor discovers that poor diet, not airborne microbes, is the cause of pellagra, a debilitating and often fatal disease. He's bucking the medical establishment, though, and his findings are not universally accepted.
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A series of surprising findings about some of the most widely accepted assumptions in medicine has renewed debate about how aggressively doctors use drugs to prevent and treat some of the nation's leading health problems.
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Doctors who published research linking MMR vaccine with autism in children could be struck off.
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Professor Richard Lipton, from New Yorkâs Albert Einstein College of Medicine, also said there was evidence that in some people migraines got worse with time, leaving many severely disabled in their everyday lives.
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Plenty of evidence suggests that having trouble understanding medical information is bad for your health. Now new research says it could even be deadly.
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Doctors who published research linking MMR vaccine and autism in children could be struck off.
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Using steroids to treat patients with severe head injuries can be deadly, according to a new study published in the medical journal Lancet.