Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have recommended that 31 papers from a former lab director be retracted from medical journals. Stat News...
October 17th, 2018A free app that lets patients do quick health check-ups on themselves is the centre-piece of a Gates Foundation-backed project to bring better care to poor regions of...
Exactly a year after the start of the arbitration hearings that sought justice for the families of the dead Life Esidimeni patients, the esteemed Lancet Commission on...Addiction News
Restrictions on the availability of approved medications to treat opioid addiction is driving a black market, writes Jake Harper for NPR. The American Society of...
September 26th, 2018Ketamine gives hope to patients with severe depression, reports a Stat News investigation. But usage in the US is booming, with clinics hyping its benefits and using...
September 5th, 2018A meta-analysis from 11 trials found that aspirin reduced the risk of non-fatal myocardial infarction by 22% and death by 6%, at the cost of a 59% increase in...
Despite safety concerns about e-cigarettes, they are commonly used in the United States, especially among young adults, according to findings published in Annals of...
September 3rd, 2018Jay Lawrence, an energetic truck driver in his late 30s, was driving a semitrailer across a bridge when the brakes failed. To avoid ploughing into the car in front of...
A US collaboration that pooled data from 14 scientific studies containing between them more than 600 HIV-positive people has found that 67 of them were able to maintain...HIV/AIDS
Among the more than 1m people in the US living with HIV, 19% meet the criteria for an alcohol use disorder. The consequences can be severe, with heavy drinking...
