Medicine

As a child of Costa Rican immigrants, second-year medical student Miguel Ruiz grew up in a predominately Hispanic community in Miami. His family went back…

Ohio is one step closer to getting its medical marijuana program operating by September. The state medical board has opened the online application to…

A small balloon could be one of the best bets for Columbus doctors to save gunshot victims. And as Columbus continues to experience a wave of deadly…

In what's believed to be the first dedicated facility at a pediatric medical center, Cincinnati Children's is planning to launch the Center for Stem...

The Cleveland Clinic has announced it will expand a program that collects tissue and fluid samples from patients for research purposes. It’s called the...

A military-grade vest, using radar technology, may be the answer to keeping some heart patients out of the hospital.The Ohio State University Wexner…

A study analyzing data from poison control centers finds that the rate of serious medication errors outside health care settings doubled between 2000 and 2012.

Bats are the only flying mammal.But that's just one of a long list of bats' unique attributes, including an unusually long life and the ability to avoid…

Technology three decades old is grabbing the attention of Cincinnati doctors as a possible substitute for drugs and surgical procedures for treating...

One corner of the garden of Alnwick Castle in northern England grows a hundred plants behind lock and key. Many of the toxic species there were used by medieval doctors — nasty plants adapted to heal.