Teva Pharmaceutical Industries and Active Biotech have announced that both companies remain committed to the Nerventra(laquinimod)clinical development program for multiple sclerosis(MS)following the announcement of a negative opinion for ...
Tags: Medicine, clinical studies, Nerventra
Hetlioz (tasimelteon) has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat a sleep condition caused by a completely blind person's inability to regulate the body clock by recognizing light from dark. The condition is ...
Tags: blind person's inability, new drug
Comparisons between modern humans and Neanderthals are usually meant as either an insult or a joke. But a new study suggests that many people today still harbor bits of Neanderthal DNA that affect their health. These remnants of ...
Only 1 in 10 people who need palliative care - that is medical care to relieve the pain, symptoms and stress of serious illness - is currently receiving it. This unmet need is mapped for the first time in the "Global atlas of palliative ...
Tags: WPCA, HIV, drug-resistant tuberculosis, health-care systems
Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have deciphered the structure of part of the ribosome found in mitochondria, the power plants of the cell. The scientists were able to benefit from advancements in the field ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Surgeons' best tools for locating tumors inside the body are often their hands. But during minimally invasive surgeries—which can reduce recovery time by days—the ability to examine tissue through touch, called palpation, is ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Up to 30 percent of heart attack patients suffer a new heart attack because cardiologists are unable to control inflammation inside heart arteries — the process that leads to clots rupturing and causing myocardial infarction or ...
Tags: New Technology, Heart Attacks, HDL, LDL
Sleeping during the day -- a necessity for jet-lagged travelers and those who work overnight shifts -- disrupts the rhythms of about one-third of your genes, a new study suggests. What's more, shifted sleep appears to disrupt gene ...
Webbers Food is recalling “Hausmacher” liver paté from the marketplace because it may permit the growth of Clostridium botulinum. Consumers should not consume the recalled product described below. The following product ...
Every week reporter Ankita Rao selects interesting reading from around the Web. NPR: 5 Simple Habits Can Help Doctors Connect With Patients I'd never [before] been encouraged to sit at a patient's bedside -; to stop hurrying for even a ...
Tags: Obesity Origins, Children with Chronic Disease, Health&Medicine
Many women are encouraged to quit smoking when they become pregnant using nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) whether as gum, transdermal patches, nasal spray or lozenges. But new research from Western University in London, Canada, has shown ...
Tags: Smoking Mothers, Babies, Overweight
All persons taking strontium supplements are warned that significant risks have been identified. Strontium drugs are not approved for treatment of osteoporosis in the United States. Now, the Risk Assessment Committee of the European ...
The list of health woes linked to smoking is like a scroll that keeps unfurling. At a White House press conference Friday morning, half a century after the release of the historic 1964 Surgeon General's report, dozens of the nation's ...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommends health professionals discontinue prescribing combination drug products containing acetaminophen. The FDA recommends healthcare professionals discontinue ...
Tags: FDA, OTC, acetaminophen, acetaminophen-containing product
Headquartered in a traditional courtyard in downtown Beijing, Tongrentang (TRT), a pharmaceutical giant with a history of more than 300 years, is increasing its international reach with its legacy products: traditional Chinese medicine ...
Tags: TCM Companies, Global Market