MANILA — The European Union (EU) Business Avenues launched on Monday a healthcare and medical technologies business mission to showcase solutions on different challenges brought about by...
OTTAWA — In the past, public health campaigns warning of the harmful effects of drugs delivered one resounding message: Don’t do it. But now that the...
BOISE, Idaho — Randy Brooks’ son had a request three years ago: What could his dad do to make wildland firefighting safer? To Brooks, a professor...
CHICAGO — Learning disabilities and other special education needs are common in children born with opioid-related symptoms from their mother’s drug use while pregnant, according to...
VANCOUVER — There’s an urgent need to improve the treatment of severe alcohol withdrawal because too many patients are being admitted to hospital when they could...
WASHINGTON — American scientists have developed a gene therapy in treating a form of eye disease that progressively robs people of their sight and peripheral vision before...
CHICAGO — Marijuana’s main mind-altering ingredient was detected in nursing mothers’ breast milk in a small study that comes amid evidence that more U.S. women are...
KINSHASA, Congo — Congo’s health ministry says two of the first 10 people to receive an experimental treatment for the Ebola virus in the latest outbreak have recovered,...
Taking a low-dose aspirin every day has long been known to cut the chances of another heart attack, stroke or other heart problem in people who...
For the first time, a drug has been shown to help people lose weight and keep it off for several years without raising their risk for...