If you remember asking your math teacher, "When are we ever going to need this stuff," the answer might be more important than you think: when you're measuring medication for your kid. A recent unpublished study has shown that poor math skills among parents are strongly linked to errors in measuring out the correct dosage of a medication for their children. Have a nurse, doctor or pharmacist show you how to measure your child's medication. Lead author Christine Marrese , MD, of the New York University School of Medicine and Bellevue Hospital, and colleagues wanted to find out wh...

Caffeine can be a legal way to enhance athletic performance, though studies have shown mixed results. Genetic variation may be the reason caffeine does not work the same for everyone. Many studies have shown that caffeine can increase a person’s athletic performance, but these studies have also shown that these effects are not universal throughout the participants. A new study examines the link between caffeine’s effects and genetic differences between people. Caffeine may give you an extra edge in sports. Dr. Christopher J. Womack, PhD, a researcher and professor at Jam...

Think snakes are cool? Or terrifying? No matter what your feelings are, you'll have the same reaction to a poisonous snakebite. Not all snakes are poisonous, but venomous snake bites can kill. That's what you probably already know. But what you don't know about snake bites might help save your life. Seek medical help immediately if you're bitten by a snake. Snakes live all over the world, in close proximity to humans. The best thing to do around wild snakes is avoid them. But say you're walking out in nature, and come face to face with a threatening-looking slitherer who bri...

Through recent program enhancements, the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research ( CDER ) has strengthened monitoring of currently available drugs and communications about drug safety issues to the public.

Type 2 diabetes is a complex disease. As such, treating the disease also has become complex. Now, new treatment guidelines are reflecting the need to personalize treatment for individual patients.

The FDA released a report urging limited use of medically important antibiotics in farm animals. Exposure to the excessive antibiotics in food may add to resistance for people.

If you're heading over the river and through to the woods to grandmother's house, make sure grandma has put her medications far out of reach from the little ones.

If you're obese and scheduled for a CT scan, here's something you may not know: you're possibly receiving more radiation from the scan than those of a healthy weight would receive.

Children getting their second dose of the measles/mumps/rubella vaccine, with or without the chicken pox vaccine, don't need to worry about getting seizures from high fevers.

Children aren't tumbling down the stairs at the same rate they used to, but a young child is still on the way to the ER once every six minutes for stairs-related injuries.