Medicare coverage expanded a bit in 2006 to include coverage for prescription drugs, Part D, provided a Medicare beneficiary chose to enroll in Medicare Part D.  Now that the prescription coverage plan has been in effect for a while, a…

Sounds like the kind of job dreams are made of but it’s entirely real.  Researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) are recruiting as many as 150 postmenopausal women with type 2 diabetes to eat specially formulated chocolate every…

The medical community has long been aware of the benefits a blood substitute might bring when accidents occur in remote settings and during times of war but finding the right product has been difficult.  The current version of blood substitutes…

The new prescription-filling robot at Loyola University Hospital can dispense as many as 600 doses of various medications in an hour and it does so with an innovative system of safeguards that will dramatically improve the number of human errors…

Dermatologist Christine Brown has noticed an increased risk of cancer in people who wear clear, shiny lip balms and glosses during exposure to the sun.  Instead of acting as a protection, as many people expect, the shiny stuff actually attracts…