Following several years of steady progress toward elimination of measles in the World Health Organisation (WHO) European Region, the number of countries having achieved...Addiction News
Health officials are reporting what could be America’s first death linked to vaping, writes Associated Press in The Guardian. There are also reports of nearly 200...Medico-Legal
A judge in Oklahoma has ruled that Johnson & Johnson had intentionally played down the dangers and oversold the benefits of opioids, and ordered it to pay the state...HIV/AIDS
In a large cohort of people taking pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in San Francisco, the rate at which they contracted HIV was nearly eight times higher during the...
July 31st, 2019In an analysis of findings from 277 clinical trials using 24 different interventions, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers found that almost no vitamin, mineral and other...
Antidepressants may reduce deaths by more than a third in patients with diabetes and depression, according to a Taiwanese study.
People with diabetes are two to three...Public Health
Being fully vaccinated against rotavirus in the first months of life is also associated with a lower risk of developing type 1 diabetes.
Vaccinating babies against a...Weekly Roundup
The recent deaths of more than 110 children in India from encephalitis have been attributed to natural toxins in lychees. But, says a report on the MSN site, experts now...HIV/AIDS
Tracing and offering HIV tests to exposed partners and children of people living with the virus led to twice the rate of positive tests than all other HIV testing...Oncology
Michigan State University physicians have found that vitamin D, if taken for at least three years, could help cancer patients live longer. The findings suggest that the...
