A new epidemic is threatening West Africa and it is not Ebola. An epidemic of meningitis has killed over 500 people in Niger out of the 8,234 people got infected by the disease, the World Health Organization confirmed on Tuesday.
Contrary to what has been earlier reported by Pentagon and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), live anthrax samples are found in more than 40 labs, 15 states, and 3 countries. A sample has also been accidentally delivered in Washington DC, th…
The first-ever Finnish study dealt with the association between use of painkillers and anti-depressants to the risk of homicide. Researchers claim that there is actually a scientific basis that psychotropic drugs may cause violent behavior.
Various pharmaceutical companies are clamoring to discover the cure for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Now, a new research shows that a new strategy could kill the virus by starving it through blocking its supply of sugar and nutrients.
South Korea confirmed on Tuesday that five more cases of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus as two have died of the said disease. It brought the total number of cases in the country to 30.
A hidden translation of an important early medical textbook has been reassembled after pages were found around the world. The text is by Galen, considered to be one of the fathers of medicine, who died in 200 AD.
Checkpoint inhibitors and protein biomarkers were all the news at a major oncology meeting. But proposed tests to determine which patients benefit most from the new drugs may not be reliable.
Most states that have a large egg or chicken industry are looking to use every tool at their disposal to either halt the epidemic or to try to keep it from getting a foothold within their borders. Few states are not worrying.
There’s a new study about ALS, and it has a very interesting conclusion: type 2 diabetes seems to reduce the risk of being diagnosed with ALS especially in the old age.
