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.
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has updated its recommendations for how to treat fopr head lice. Any treatment for head lice has to be both effective and as safe as possible so that the cure is not worse than the problem.
Persisting drug shotages have hit the country. The drugs that are or have been in short supply range from antibiotics to cancer treatments to bags of sterile saline fluid.
A new British study says that office workers should stand up for at least two hours a day and take regular walks to reduce health risks of having a sedentary lifestyle.
We all know that breastfeeding is one of the best ways of keeping newborns healthy, but a new study suggests that it has a much bigger health impact: it can lower the risk of childhood leukemia.
A new study says that two cancer drugs when taken in combination could shrink tumor cells for up to 60% for patients suffering from advanced-stage melanoma
