Dr. Perry Hookman

Study results in Hepatology indicate that safe biopsy is a rational and validated method for staging liver fibrosis in hepatitis C with a ma...

In an op-ed for the New York Times Dr. Dena Rifkin, a physician at the University of California-San Diego, writes that since the Institute o...

Tom Baker, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, is the author of “The Medical Malpractice Myth. Says that our medical l...

Statins like Lipitor have gotten great publicity-with some advocating putting it in the drinking water. New research,however, shows that st...

Involved organizations promote a message for adults: get screened if you are 50 or older. It is predicted that if all individuals aged 50 or...

1. Nutrition plays a role in cardiovascular disease, some malignancies, adult-onset diabetes, osteoporosis, alcoholism, and recovery from ma...

Women who use the antidepressants sertraline (Zoloft) or citalopram (Celexa) early in pregnancy face increased risk for septal heart defects...

Under the American Medical Association Code of Ethics, physicians have an ethical obligation to advise a patient when they commit consequent...

Research suggests prolonged chemical castration may be needed to suppress prostate tumor-fueling hormones. There is, however, much debate re...

According to the CDC, nearly 100,000 U.S. patients died in 2002 from infections contracted in hospitals. There has been no conclusive eviden...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) worked collaboratively with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and o...

Nearly half of kidney transplant waitlist patients over age 60 are at risk to die before they receive a deceased-donor organ, researchers fo...

The reality is, says S.Balauf of US News, that not all hospitals—or doctors or nurses, for that matter—deliver high-quality care. The United...

Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism are common after stroke. In small trials of patients undergoing surgery, graduated compres...

Reports of gastrointestinal illness from use of public pools and water parks have risen sharply in recent years, according to the Centers fo...

Advise patients taking photosensitizing drugs to use a broad-spectrum sunscreen. A list of the usual culprits (isotretinoin, thiazides, etc)...

SPF is often misunderstood says the Prescriber’s Newsletter. SPF applies only to UVB...not UVA. UVB causes the familiar sunburn. SPF is an e...

Hospitals using a checklist designed for the World Health Organization (WHO) cut deaths after surgery by 46% and surgical complications by 3...

HOMEOPATHIC REMEDIES Homeopathic remedies are said to be safe—at least not harmful because the “active ingredients are so diluted.” The FDA,...

Is there a reason why Catholic nuns and Jewish women have a decreased incidence of cervical cancer and the opposite applies to groups such a...