Common Sense Family Doctor

The major randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that established the benefits of statins in preventing atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease ...

Six months ago, I wrote about why measles outbreaks matter to everyone . At that time, Lancaster County had recently diagnosed 5 people with...

Our approach to preventing egg and peanut allergies has changed over the past 2 decades. At the turn of the century, the American Academy of...

Up to 4 in 5 newborns will develop jaundice from the accumulation of unconjugated bilirubin during the first week of life. Most of the time,...

If the "third rail" of the U.S. health care system is Medicare, the third rail of preventive medicine is screening mammography. Hi...

If you found out that a medication you had been taking for years was much less effective than previously advertised, would you keep taking i...