Overreliance on D-dimer testing and similarity to other conditions may mean pulmonary embolism or venous thromboembolism is ...

Venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis after spine surgery has long lived in the gray zone between “standard of care” and “please don’t sue me.” ...

When I was about 6 years old in the early ‘40s, my 16-year-old brother was sent to a sanitarium for tuberculosis patients. He ...

I am a 68-year-old female who was first diagnosed with osteopenia and now osteoporosis. My physician has highly recommended ...

This story appears in the June 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The village chief, a wispy fellow with an easy smile and snowy muttonchops, came aboard James Cameron’s expedition ship in ...