Medical terms used by some doctors to describe cancer tumors or X-rays could be confusing to patients, a new survey finds. "You could be the smartest doctor in the world, ...

Some common medical terms may be more confusing than doctors think. Test your know-how with our quiz on five phrases you might hear in your doctor’s office.

Medical terms can, and do, change. But usually the field is responding to larger shifts in the culture, rather than leading the charge.

With the national spotlight on abortion, medical terms used in regard to pregnancy, miscarriage and abortion are showing up more frequently in everyday conversations ...

The term “medical aid in dying,” they say, is meant to emphasize that someone with a terminal diagnosis is not choosing whether but how to die. “There is a significant, ...

The medical term once encompassed any form of pregnancy loss, including miscarriage. Credit...Deena So'Oteh Supported by By Rachel E. Gross One morning in 2012, eight weeks into her pregnancy ...

Parenteral nutrition (PN) is the medical term for receiving nutrients intravenously (by IV, meaning by a needle in your vein). There are two types of parenteral nutrition: total parenteral ...