UTRECHT, Netherlands — Els van der Heijden, who has cystic fibrosis, was finding it ever harder to breathe as her lungs filled with thick, sticky mucus....
MANILA – Staying dry may well be a pulmonologist’s best advice to people who want to avoid contracting respiratory diseases during the rainy season. “A virus usually thrives...
Johnson & Johnson (J&J) was ordered on Monday by a Los Angeles jury to pay a record of $417 million to a woman who complained before...
Rice consumption and diabetes was the topic of debate in an Asia-Pacific conference in clinical Nutrition (APCCN) held in 2015 at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Two clinical...
QUEBEC — Canada’s opioid epidemic isn’t a single crisis but a complex set of overlapping crises that will take multiple strategies to solve, a panel of...
WASHINGTON — Don’t make things worse. That’s the advice of former U.S. health secretaries of both parties to President Donald Trump and the GOP-led Congress, now...
TORONTO — Health Canada announced Sunday that it has approved an application by Toronto Public Health to open a safe injection site several months earlier than...
SAN FRANCISCO — Researchers in the United States suggest that protective measures make good sense for both the animals and humans as the spread of influenza among...
MANILA— The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned the public against buying and consuming several unregistered food supplements being sold online. The agency noted that...
MANILA— The two poultry farm workers in San Luis, Pampanga who had manifested flu-like symptoms, have tested negative for avian influenza, Health Secretary Dr. Paulyn Ubial...