Antiplatelet medications, while highly effective, can put surgical patients at risk of serious bleeding. But a new, safer drug may be on the horizon.

An automatic, wearable defibrillator approved for use in adults just got a new approved use: helping kids at risk of sudden cardiac arrest.

Surgery has long been the gold standard in appendicitis treatment. But a new discovery could change that.

Certain surgeries require medications called muscle relaxants to keep patients from moving. And now there's a medication to reverse the effects of two common muscle relaxants.

If you have asthma, you may be more likely to develop another common condition.

Flu vaccines are known to be less effective in the elderly. But until now, the mechanisms behind this phenomenon were not well-understood.

Hormone therapy is often used to ease symptoms like hot flashes in postmenopausal women. But this practice may have another benefit.

The current front-line treatment for early breast cancer, tamoxifen, may have met its match.

Chemotherapy can greatly improve cancer patients' chances of survival. But with this treatment comes a serious and equally life-threatening risk: heart failure.

Breast cancer patients and their doctors may now have a new tool in their toolbox.