Up to half of older adults do not take their medications as directed, taking less than prescribed or stopping after six ...

"The system is really getting in the way," said a pediatric pulmonologist. After many trips to the doctor's office, five-year-old Burton Hayes's asthma was finally under control with a medication ...

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a holistic approach to treating a person’s mental and physical health problems. It developed thousands of years ago, and its core practices have changed little ...

Three new books make the case for music as medicine. In “The Schubert Treatment,” the most lyrical of the trio, a cellist takes us bedside with the sick and the dying. By Alexandra Jacobs My ...

The idea that food is medicine has been around for centuries, even if there’s doubt about its origin story. (The Greek physician Hippocrates, the “father” of Western medicine, allegedly ...