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.
At least 1 in every 3 Briton born this year is at risk of developing dementia during the later part of their lives, according to a study conducted by the Office of Health Economics as commissioned by Alzheimer’s Research UK.
Merck & Co Inc has developed an antibody that may reduce the risk of a deadly diarrhea recurrence caused by Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) by at least 15%.
