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FDA Recalls Some Valsartan Drugs Due to Impurity

Authorities say the impurity has been classified as a probable human carcinogen as per International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classification. "O$3 u...

FDA recalls blood pressure, heart failure medications after cancer-causing agents found

FDA announced a voluntary recall of common heart drug with the active ingredient valsartan . The recall doesn't include all products containing valsartan; v...

Malaysia's IHH Healthcare to invest Rs 4000 cr in Fortis

This was pursuant to both the SSA and open offer to Fortis shareholders, which could see IHH hold about 432.32 million Fortis shares, representing about 57.1% s...

Ancient 'Iceman' shows signs of a well-balanced last meal

In 2009, a radiologist had discovered the Iceman's stomach - which was full - had moved upwards, behind his ribcage. They also offer clues as to how our ancient...

Oranges keep macular degeneration at bay

Around 600,000 people in the United Kingdom now have sight loss caused by the incurable disease and around 70,000 new cases are diagnosed every year, equivalent...

Report from NY health officials calls for pot legalization

It says it could also create over 200,000 new jobs, and bring $700 million in tax revenue to the state. "Areas that may be a cause for concern can be mitigate...

FDA approves 1st drug to treat smallpox, in case of terror attack

While smallpox was declared eradicated by the World Health Organization after a global vaccination campaign - meaning it no longer occurs naturally, explains ...

US accuses North Korea of breaching United Nations sanctions - Document

North Korea characterized US attitudes as being "gangster-like" when Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited Pyongyang a week ago, and suggested it might not...

Scientists Take First Ever Color X-ray of Human Body

The device is based on CERN technology, dubbed Medipix that works like a camera and detects and counts each individual particle during collisions. Instead of bl...

U.S. Insurers Say the Opioid Crisis Might Be Declining

However, the report found a 5 percent decline in opioid addiction diagnosis from 2013 to 2017. The number of prescriptions they are using has dropped by about...

Virginia Beach Mosquito Control sees increase in West Nile Virus activity

Oxford Drive in the Kings Grant neighborhood. A spokesperson for the health department said these were the first mosquito collections to test positive for the...

Here Are the Best (and Worst) States to Retire

California: The seaside state is near the bottom for cost of living and taxes. Florida scored well for its warm weather and low taxes but was hindered by score...

Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $4.7bn in talc powder claim

Of the 22 women represented in this case, six have died from ovarian cancer . Mark Lanier, the lawyer for the women, in a statement following the verdict cal...

New sexually transmitted infections could make women infertile

Mycoplasma genitalium (MG) can easily go unnoticed as it does not show any symptoms but can cause pelvic inflammatory disease, which can lead to infertility in...

Scientists perform first-ever 3-D, colour X-ray on a human

The device, named "Medipix", incorporates particle-tracking technology developed for CERN's Large Hadron Collider , which in 2012 discovered the Higgs Boson pa...

Scientists Have Tricked Cancer Cells Into Fighting Each Other Using CRISPR

The method which is newly discovered on July 11, 2018, they have introduced the new molecular technique of cut and paste system which in turn will help in rewri...

Trump administration guts grants to help those in need get Obamacare

For the past five years, when insurance has been available through ACA marketplaces for people who do not have access to affordable health benefits through a jo...

Johnson & Johnson told to pay $4.7bn in powder case

Mark Lanier, the Houston-based lawyer for the plaintiffs, presented jurors with internal company documents revealing Johnson & Johnson knew of the asbestos in i...

'Do not eat this cereal': CDC links Honey Smacks, salmonella

Those symptoms can last between four and seven days, and such illnesses send about 23,000 people to the hospital every year, according to the CDC. No deaths ha...

Trial over Roundup weed killer cancer claim under way

Still, the judge said he would not go as far as saying that three experts presented by attorneys for the cancer victims and their families presented "junk scien...

Multi-vitamins do not promote cardiovascular health

Despite these findings , about one-third of all people in the US use multivitamin and mineral supplements, with the global nutritional supplement industry expe...

First case of West Nile found in DeKalb County

Alberta Health Services recommends wearing a long-sleeved, light-coloured shirt, trousers and a hat and using insect repellent with DEET . "All residents are...

Boston researchers re-engineer cancer cells to fight off 'their own kind'

Aside from disseminating around the body during metastasis, cancer cells can also return to and recolonize their tumors of origin-a phenomenon known as tumor se...

Sex addiction is officially a mental illness

Sex addiction has been recognised as a mental illness by the World Health Organisation , and people sufffering could get treatment on the NHS. "It takes i...

Australian experiment wipes out over 80% of disease-carrying mosquitoes

Female mosquitoes were found unable to reproduce properly after scientists introduced sterile males to the population. A successful mosquito experiment in nor...

First pictures of Thai cave boys on road to recovery

Last week, FIFA said it would invite the group to Russian Federation 2018 as soon as they were rescued but the Thai authorities have told world football's g...

Man contracts flesh-eating bacteria while crabbing in NJ, may lose limbs

For Perez, the infection spread quickly - taking just hours for his limbs to swell and become discolored. She told NJ.com that doctors at Cooper University Hosp...

Controversy flares over USA challenge to World Health Organization breastfeeding resolution

Mr. Trump said the country "strongly supports" breastfeeding, but the issue the US representatives had was with denying access to formula. A weekend report...

More Evidence That Supplements Won't Help Your Heart

The effectiveness of multivitamin and mineral supplements to prevent cardiovascular diseases has been a topic of debate for years, despite numerous well-condu...

Texas Parents Consider Divorce to Afford Child's Health Care

People get divorced for plenty of reasons, but usually it's over issues that involve the couple's inability to happily stay together. It was nine years ago th...