Pediatric infectious disease expert shares insights on vaccine development for babies and younger kids, advice for parents.

Opioids can help reduce the amount of medication needed to achieve anesthesia.

Researchers say the trend has been driven by new medical cannabis laws, expanded qualifying conditions and increased enrollment nationally.

Hundreds of thousands of surgical and dental opioid prescriptions are filled a month or more after writing, but one state’s law helped reduce this “delayed dispensing”.

The VA’s efforts to reduce use of risky antipsychotic medications in its nursing homes succeeded – but use of other medications with less evidence behind them rose.

Although obesity is now known to be a chronic disease that often doesn’t respond to diet and exercise alone, many people with obesity don’t have access to weight loss drugs and operations.

Hospices often prescribe medicines like Xanax, Haldol and Seroquel to patients to ease end-of-life symptoms, but a new study shows very wide variation in the chances patients will get these drugs.

Sometimes called “sugar pills”, the concept has been around since the 1800s.

Increased antibiotic use can lead to more resistance and fewer effective antimicrobial treatments for patients.

Neurology experts reviewed the latest evidence to offer new recommendations for management of painful neuropathy in diabetes patients.

Researchers say it’s a sign that more targeted therapies are needed for the vulnerable patient population.

The top 5% of prescribers account for half of opioid prescriptions and high risk prescriptions to children and young adults.

Doctors prescribed smaller and shorter courses of opioid pain medications like Oxycontin, Oxycodone, Vicodin after the 2016 CDC opioid prescribing guidelines.

Multiple prescribers means higher overdose risk in patients taking a benzodiazepine (such as Xanax, Valium or Restoril) and an opioid (such as Vicodin, Norco or Percocet) at the same time

Study finds declines in prescription drugs dispensed to children during COVID-19, including infection-related medicines and some used for chronic diseases.