Two new studies of e-cigarettes may bolster US government efforts to stem what it calls a growing epidemic of youth vaping, writes Anna Edney for Bloomberg. Children...Addiction Research
African Americans who smoke cigarettes are more likely than those who don't smoke to develop peripheral artery disease, according to research in the Journal of the...International
Campaigners in the UK are calling on the government to urgently intervene over the cost of a drug that could extend the lives of thousands of children but which...
January 30th, 2019Intensive control of blood pressure in older people significantly reduced the risk of developing mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a precursor of early dementia, in a...
Dr Paul Harch, clinical professor and director of hyperbaric medicine at Louisiana State University Health New Orleans School of Medicine, and Dr Edward Fogarty, chair...Oncology
US researchers found the introduction of the absorbers into the blood of swine models enabled the capture of an average 64% of a liver cancer drug without any immediate...
January 16th, 2019A new artificial intelligence (AI) tool from the UK Institute of Cancer Research scans tumour cells to pick out women with especially aggressive ovarian cancer....
January 9th, 2019The US fertility industry remains largely unregulated and draws IVF patients from around the world seeking controversial services – not just sex selection, but...
A new HIV vaccine trial, also known as “Imbokodo” (HVTN 705/HPX2008), which will be conducted on 2,600 women in southern Africa, will evaluate whether an...Infectious Diseases
An investigational oral antibiotic called zoliflodacin was well-tolerated and successfully cured most cases of uncomplicated gonorrhoea when tested in a Phase 2...
