NEW YORK — U.S. nursing homes have significantly reduced the use of powerful antipsychotic drugs among their elderly residents, responding to pressure from many directions. Yet...
TORONTO — One of Canada’s most high-profile mental health treatment centres says it’s opening a new research hub that will focus on the needs of people...
TORONTO — Dr. Markus Selzner has just come from surgery, still in his scrubs, and he’s excited to show off his baby. A configuration of fluid-filled...
MANILA— Two workers’ organizations in the local show business industry have institutionalized the social health insurance coverage of their members nationwide. Officers of the Katipunan ng mga...
MANILA — The World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed alarm over the high levels of antibiotic resistance to a number of serious bacterial infections found in...
MANILA — The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned that the Philippine market is flooded with unregistered and fake pharmaceutical and beauty products, made locally or...
BOSTON — Companies are exploiting provisions in state marijuana laws that were intended to allow adults to give small amounts of the drug to each other...
TORONTO – Ontario doctors who have a moral or religious objection to treatments such as assisted dying, contraception or abortions must refer patients to another doctor...
ZAMBOANGA CITY — The Department of Health (DOH) revealed that the Dengvaxia scare has affected the outcome of the agency’s program on National School Deworming Month...
MANILA— The Department of Health (DOH) launched Tuesday its first-ever “Train Wrap” project at the Manila Light Rail Transit System Line 2 (LRT 2) to give its...