The World Health Organisation (WHO) reports on World Polio Day, an independent commission of experts concluded that wild poliovirus type 3 (WPV3) has been eradicated...Weekly Roundup
Tanzania has denied it was withholding information from the World Health Organisation (WHO) on suspected cases of Ebola, saying it was not hiding any outbreak of the...Medico-Legal
US physician Dr Joel Smithers, a 36-year-old married father of five, is facing the possibility of life in prison after being convicted in May of more than 800 counts of...Emergency Medicine
Among patients with severe manifestations of sepsis, initiation of empirical antimicrobial therapy significantly reduces the sensitivity of blood cultures drawn shortly...International
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...
