Do you have to wait weeks, even months to see your doctor? Some doctors think a full waiting room is a sign of a healthy practice but increasingly patients are losing their patience with long waits. Doctors are now borrowing industrial engineering ideas to schedule patient visits more efficiently.

What’s in a name? Well, maybe your life. Naming drugs has become a public health issue. The potential for mixing up similar sounding names keeps growing, as new drugs hit the market each year. If you think it can’t happen to you, think again.

Most smokers try many times to quit with little success. Here's a tool that may help you stop smoking for good.

About forty-three million Americans have arthritis. It can strike in the prime of life during your most productive years. But here’s a story of an artist who's able to give arthritis the brush off so she can paint the town.

One experimental knee may improve knee implants just in time for aging baby boomers.