The authors of a new study seek to determine the safety and efficacy of different formulations of tiotropium as a COPD therapy.

Crystalloids have been the preferred agent for fluid resuscitation in the ICU, but a new study shows little difference between these and colloids in terms of 28-day mortality.

Under the leadership of Dr. Thomas Farley, New York City and Mayor Michael Bloomberg have implemented some of the toughest health laws in the nation.

Carbon monoxide is one of the leading causes of poison-related deaths in children in the United States. Help prevent them with appropriate parent education.

Contrary to expectation, mortality and outcomes were the same with small segmental pulmonary embolism as with larger clots.

A 29-year-old Stanford dropout has developed a new biotechnology that threatens to give laboratory medicine its biggest shakeup in decades.

Dr. Eric Topol talks with NBC's Dr. Nancy Snyderman about juggling careers in medicine and television, and what it's like to break through academia's glass ceiling.

A recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine gauges the efficacy of newly FDA-approved macitentan on pulmonary arterial hypertension.

FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, MD, talks with Medscape at the National Health Research Forum in Washington, DC.

Being friends with your patient could distort your medical judgment. Ethicist Art Caplan tells us when such friendships are acceptable.