The U.K. government said Thursday it will lift a decades-old ban on British donations of blood plasma for use in the manufacture of medicines, in a move that could help treat thousands of critically ill patients.
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February is usually the peak of flu season, with doctors’ offices and hospitals packed with suffering patients. But not this year.
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Israel’s parliament passed a law Wednesday allowing the government to share the identities of people not vaccinated against the coronavirus with other authorities, raising privacy concerns for those opting out of inoculation.
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A federal court in California ruled in favor of First Databank in a suit brought against it by prenatal vitamin manufacturer Exeltis USA over claims that the drug and medical device database company’s coding changes would improperly characterize prenatal vitamins as over-the-counter and cause patients to lose coverage for the prescription supplements that prevent birth defects.
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The fragile embryo deploys its own immune system to survive in its earliest days.
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A California woman sued Kern Medical Center claiming doctors there sent her home even though she was having contractions, and she woke the next morning to find her baby had been born and was dead.
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Scientists believe they’ve found a way to reverse the damage to cognitive function caused by Alzheimer’s disease — a potential landmark treatment for a disease afflicting 35 million people worldwide.
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Russian scientists say the country’s Sputnik V vaccine appears safe and effective against Covid-19, according to early results of an advanced study published Tuesday in a British medical journal.
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South Africa is allowing the limited use of a medicine to treat Covid-19 even though regulators acknowledge there’s not enough evidence that it works or is safe for this purpose.
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Air pollution is likely to increase the risk of irreversible sight loss, according to the results of a long-term study published Tuesday.
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Experts say an “infodemic” contributes to vaccine wariness
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Researchers on Tuesday reported another record one-year decline in the U.S. cancer death rate, a drop they attribute to success against lung cancer.
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Feeling stressed? It could be because you’re sleeping poorly at night.
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An Argentinian judge compelled a private clinic to administer chlorine dioxide, used as a powerful disinfectant, to a coronavirus patient who died Monday in a case medical doctors have labelled “a scandal.”
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Studying brain tissue of 10 donors who had varying degrees of Alzheimer’s disease when they died, scientists discovered neurons in the parts of the brain that handle memory, navigation and self-awareness are early targets of the disease.
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As the French government seeks to ramp up its lagging Covid-19 vaccination campaign, it faces a tricky challenge: convincing all doctors to back the jabs, even though some share the same hesitations as the general population.
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Much of the focus on developing a Covid-19 vaccine or treatment has concentrated on cure and prevention, but a new computational model released Thursday shows that shortening the contagious period of the illness could prevent millions of infections and save billions of dollars in health care costs.
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Progeria, the disease which causes children to age prematurely and rapidly, stems from a single misplaced gene. Now, a breakthrough gene-editing method shows promising results in treating the mutation.
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Scientists on Thursday revealed a new hope for people affected by neglected tropical diseases, as research has uncovered traditional medicines from the African country of Ghana which could help treat some of those diseases.
Read moreA federal appeals court upheld a lower court’s ruling in favor of the Trump administration in a suit challenging a plan to require hospitals to disclose the “standard prices” of common medical tests and procedures.
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