A new study of almost six million people discovered that second hand smoke or passive smoking is associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes compared to those who never smoked or inhaled cigarette fumes.
According to the Institute of Medicine, most Americans will receive at least one wrong or delayed diagnosis at some point in their lives. Wrong or late diagnoses can have devastating consequences, and the institute calls for urgent changes in the American heal…
Another blow is coming to the pharmaceutical industry that has been hit almost daily with bad publicity over astronomical drug prices. A study says that drug companies are charging up to 600 times what certain cancer drugs cost to make..
Doctors can make at least one error in diagnosis, and it may be enough to result to disastrous consequences. If these errors at not corrected, they may only get worse.
A 62-year-old drug called Daraprim used to cost $13.50 per pill. Daraprim was recently bought by Turing Pharmaceuticals, which raised the price to $750 a pill.And Daraprim is not alone in such huge price hikes.
Despite eating a very fatty diet, the Inuit people do not suffer many heart attacks which was credited to the high amount of omega-3 fatty acids in the fish they age. Now a study says that it isn't the omega-3s, it is their genes.
