Conventional medicine is the most common type of medicine in the Western world. Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is the term for treatments that are not part of mainstream healthcare. Many ...

Alternative medicine encompasses a wide range of medical practices and systems from cultures around the world. In the U.S., people use the term to describe practices that are outside mainstream ...

Medicine has been around for 60,000 years. Over the course of those centuries, we have been able to improve our different kinds of medicine to make them more effective. With all of the different types ...

Struggling with distressing menopause symptoms? So many of us are. In a 2023 survey, 81 percent of menopausal and ...

The practice of energy healing has been around for centuries in cultures all over the world and has recently been picking up steam in the United States. Advocates for energy healing claim it comes ...

The UAB Comprehensive Diabetes Research Center is actively researching curative therapies for many types of diabetes. Learn more about the various types of diabetes below. Pre-diabetes is a condition ...

Jardiance (empagliflozin) is a medicine for type 2 diabetes approved by the FDA in 2014. It is approved to help lower blood sugar levels in adults and children with type 2 diabetes and to lower the ...

The 2024 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to US scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their work on the discovery of microRNA, a molecule that governs how cells in the ...