A research revealed that there is about 60% shortage in Malaria funds worldwide.
In a report published in the Lancet medical journal, experts from UK and Africa discovered that out of the 93 countries where malaria is prevalent, only 21 have received sufficient fund for anti-malaria campaigns.
Through there had been significant increase of funds in African [...]
European regulators want Avandia, a popular drug used for controlling blood sugar levels of type 2 diabetes patients, to be taken out of the market.
In the UK, over 100,000 patients take Avandia despite on-going studies associating the drug with heart problems.
The European Medicines Agency has reviewed the safety data and figured Avandia is more than [...]
Taking one aspirin tablet a day may cut bowel cancer risk, a study shows.
Scientists found that those who took 75 mg of aspirin for a year reduced their bowel cancer risk by 22 per cent suggesting that even the lowest regular dose can cut the risk by almost a third.
The research also showed that those [...]
Women who are drinking four cups of coffee every day may cut their chances of having gout by as much as 57 per cent, researchers suggest.
It was revealed in a research that two to four cups of coffee may lower gout risks by about 22 per cent whereas those who just drink a cup per [...]
People may put away the apple for the meantime and replace it with tomatoes as research suggests that daily serving of tomatoes can give one some protection against prostate cancer and can interfere with the tumors’ development in an existing patient.
A research on mice, which were raised to be genetically vulnerable to cancer, showed that [...]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is set to make a decision later this month as to whether genetically engineered salmon should be allowed for human consumption.
It will be the agency’s first approval of a genetically modified animal should FDA permit the consumption of the genetically engineered salmon.
AquAdvantage Salmon injected growth hormones into Atlantic salmon [...]
The regulators of federal health warned the manufacturers of Lipton tea and Canada Dry ginger ale for making unproven nutritional claims to promote the green tea-flavored drinks that they produce.
The Food & Drug Administration sent a warning letter on August 30 to Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, the maker of Canada Dry Sparkling Green Tea Ginger [...]
15 people have died of West Nile Virus in northern Greece as it sickened 158 others, Hellenic Centre for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Friday.
According to the agency, nine of the thirty-nine people who were hospitalized on Friday are in intensive care while another 116 patients have been discharged after treatment.
West Nile Virus is [...]
A glimpse of a mother’s face stimulate brain cells more than other people’s pictures, a study shows.
It is believed that the complexities of the bonding process that occurs during the first months and years of existence guarantees that a mother will always be attached on a child’s mind, even if years may have passed.
In one [...]
Melanoma is the most serious type of skin cancer. The disease is treatable if detected early but once it has spread to other parts of the body, the case usually ends to death.
According to the American Cancer Society, melanoma takes about 10,000 lives each year in the United States but the figures might drop with [...]
