Cut Alcohol to Less Than One Drink a Day, Britons Are Warned
According to the new U.K. government guidelines on alcohol consumption, the government has warned that women and men should not drink more than six pints…
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City’s first medical marijuana dispensary to open Thursday
With medicinal marijuana licenses in hand, New York dispensaries are finally gearing up to sell cannabis legally beginning Thursday. Columbia Care arguably has one the…
Best Diets 2016: From Fastest Weight Loss to Conquering Cravings
HMR Weight Management Services (HMR), a subsidiary of Merck, has been named a No. 1 Best Fast Weight-Loss Diet in U.S. News & World Report’s…
Birth control can now be prescribed by pharmacists in Oregon
On January 1, the state of Oregon officially became the first in the nation to allow women to purchase hormonal contraception directly from a pharmacist,…
Zika virus reported in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico has reported its first case of Zika virus, an illness transferred via mosquitoes. It has recently been linked to a number of birth…
Vitamin D supplement may benefit MS patients’ immune systems
A great deal of studies have associated low levels of vitamin D with increased risk of multiple sclerosis (MS). Additionally, among people who have MS,…
One in four cancer trials fails to enroll enough participants
According to a study published on December 29 in the JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, a number of measurable trial characteristics are predictive…
Twin births in the US reach a record high
The U.S. twinning rate hit a record last year, with 33.9 out of every 1,000 births involving twins. Though the increase from the 2013 rate…
Clinton announces $2 billion a year effort to cure Alzheimer’s disease
Hillary Clinton announced on Tuesday a $2 billion annual effort to cure Alzheimer’s disease by 2025. She called for doubling federal spending to combat the…
The ‘DNA diet’ could be a game-changer for losing weight
Researchers behind a latest study suggest that the diet of the future is “precision dieting” that uses the information in your DNA to determine the…
All high risk patients should get blood pressure meds
According to a latest study, more lives could be saved if doctors considered giving blood pressure drugs to all patients at high risk of heart…
Doctors target Catalyst Pharma’s forthcoming pricing on old-turned-new med Firdapse
A new organization of activist doctors have joined in a drug pricing protest. Neuromuscular specialists are targeting a stirring drug, Firdapse. This drug is expected…
FDA approves Selexipag for treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension
On Dec. 21, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Uptravi (Selexipag) tablets to treat adults with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), a chronic, progressive, debilitating,…
Harvard Study Links Autism to a Key Neurotransmitter
According to a new study autism symptoms have been linked to reduced action of GABA, a neurotransmitter responsible for diminishing cellular activity in the brain….
RISK FACTORS, NOT CHANCE, MAY CAUSE MOST CANCERS
According to a research published in a in the journal Nature, might be significant for strategizing cancer prevention, research, and public health. The finding was…
Can scary films literally curdle your blood?
According to a new study which has been carried out by researchers from The Netherlands, watching horror movies and feeling fear from them can raise…
Nine in 10 cancers caused by lifestyle
Environmental and external factors such as smoking, drinking, sun exposure and air pollution account for nine in 10 cancers, new study shows Scientists at the…
NIH funded trials dip, industry trials on the rise
According to a recent study, since 2006 in the U.S., every year the number of advanced medical research in humans that’s funded by the National…
Chemotherapy and Suicide Gene Therapy Combination Results in Curing Prostrate Cancer
Researchers have found productive results using a combination of ‘Suicide Gene Therapy’ and chemotherapy in a long term research carried out at the Houston Methodist…
Two Drugs Equal for Early Breast Cancer
According to a recent study was carried out at 333 hospitals in North America, Postmenopausal women with hormone-positive ductal carcinoma in situ treated by lumpectomy…