How drug companies used 1980 doctor’s letter to usher in widespread opioids use

At least a dozen dogs in Florida are sick with “dog flu,” but what exactly is this disease and where did it come from? So far, 12 dogs in Florida have tested positive for a strain of dog flu virus known as H3N2, and many other dogs in central and north …

For two years, Michelle Case had no name for the disease that plagued her. Seemingly overnight, the Loveland resident, wife and mother of four became a new person.

(FOX NEWS) – The Food and Drug Administration has announced a nut recall. The FDA says Ava’s Organic Cashews, Roasted & Salted may be contaminated with the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes.

The World Health Organization is highlighting the dangers of tobacco use as one of the biggest public health threats in the world.

Some people using the internet a lot can show real physiological changes similar to drug withdrawal, researchers in Swansea and Milan found.

Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute have found a way to modify an essential antibiotic to make it more powerful and less susceptible to resistance.

Long before symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease become apparent to patients and their families, biological changes are occurring within the brain.

US scientists say they have poured cold water on the theory that washing hands with hot water kills more germs than unheated water.

FILE – In this Sept. 11, 2015 file photo, Debbie Ziegler, mother of Brittany Maynard, speaks to the media after the passage of legislation, which would allow terminally ill patients to legally end their lives, at the state Capitol, in Sacramento, Calif …

A ‘monster’ surgeon has been jailed for 15 years for carrying out needless breast operations on his victims, who were left scarred and disfigured.

Relay for Life is celebrating its 20th year from 6 p.m. to midnight Friday downtown on the downtown square. (Photo courtesy Relay for Life).

BANGOR, Maine – The American Red Cross urges those who have never given blood before – as well as those who haven’t given recently – to make an appointment to give blood or platelets now and help sustain a sufficient community blood supply this …

Amid the alarming rise in food allergies, two new treatments are on the verge of approval. David Crow reports on how they work, and why our food has turned against us.

Christina Arredondo during a news conference Wednesday with the Ohio attorney general, Mike DeWine, right. Ms. Arredondo discussed how addiction affected her daughter’s life.

I’d like to explain why, as a magazine focused on the health and wellness of women, this is a conversation we need to be having.

Often they don’t call themselves smokers and they rarely buy cigarettes but this time of year, as the calender fills with festivities, they’re lighting up like Christmas trees.