Charity group Doctors without Borders (French: Médecins Sans Frontières) has expressed serious concern over the possible critical shortage of anti-venom serums by June next year as Sanofi has already stopped production of its product about 5 years ago.
Parents, here’s some good news. Based on a new report, the number of emergency visits due to unsupervised medication intake of children has declined substantially over the last 3 years since 2010.
A Minnesota woman has filed a lawsuit against Andrew & Williamson Fresh Produce, distributor of garden cucumbers believed to have caused the salmonella outbreak that has already killed one and affected at least 300 people in more than 25 states.
Girls with autism display less repetitive and restricted behavior than boys with autism do, according to a study. Differences in the brain between boys and girls with autism may help explain these differences.
A study in mice indicates that giving aspirin to cancer patients may strongly boost the effectiveness of the new anticancer drugs that help the immune system fight tumors.
The NHS England has stopped the funding of sixteen cancer drugs intended for more than twenty cancer treatments, citing the benefits do not justify the cost of the drugs.
Weight-loss surgery is better than medication at controlling type 2 diabetes in obese people. Half of 60 people treated with either a Roux-en-Y or biliopancreatic diversion were free of diabetes 5 years after their surgery.
Lack of teamwork, poor communication, and overreliance on the Electronic Health Record (EHR) were just some of the issues faced by the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital at the height of the Ebola crisis, where one patient died and two nurses were diagnosed of…
