The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) recently determined that family physicians are able to reduce unnecessary surgeries related to breast cancer -- and, in doing so, lower unnecessary medical costs.

Dr. Peter Gerhardt, an autism educator who is internationally known for helping adults and adolescents who have autism and the executive director of the EPIC school in New Jersey, recently answered questions about a 23-year-old autistic woman who is starting to show signs of stress.

A team of researchers at the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), a branch of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), recently discovered compounds that may be useful for stopping the Zika virus.

Officials with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved Erelzi as a treatment for multiple inflammatory diseases, such as plaque psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis.

Leaders at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and Pfizer Inc. plan to present 19 different abstracts related to the Eliquis treatment at this year’s ESC Congress, located in Rome, Italy.

Leaders with the Lipoprotein(a) Foundation and the European Atherosclerosis Society (EAS) recently established an official partnership to increase awareness of inherited cardiovascular disease and genetic risk factors.

New Medicaid enrollments under the Affordable Care Act are costing the federal government far more than estimated, a leading critic of Obamacare has warned.