Swiss researchers say tactics drug companies use to maintain market share in the face of generic competitors is costing the healthcare system millions of dollars each year. Find out »
The Doctor Shortage
So who is performing your annual clinical breast exam these days? If your reply was that you depend on your primary care physician (PCP) or gynecologist, it’s possible that your answer is going to have to change sometime in the future. More »
How to Curb Asthma and Allergy Attacks
There's no cure for either condition, but there are treatment options that will make you more comfortable and will possibly stave off a life-threatening attack. More »
Why Don't Children with Autism Respond to Speech?
Children with autism may not find human speech pleasurable because of weaker connections between voice recognition and reward centers in their brains. More »
Gene Sequencing Diagnoses Paralympic Hopeful's Rare Disease
UK national cycling champion Tom Staniford suffers from an extremely rare genetic disease that went undiagnosed until now. More »
WHO urges tougher food marketing rules to curb childhood obesity
By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - The marketing of unhealthy foods to children has proven "disastrously effective", driving obesity by using cheap social media channels to promote fat-, salt- and sugar-laden foods, the World Health Orga... More »
FDA probes deaths of two patients on Lilly schizophrenia drug
By Ransdell Pierson (Reuters) - The Food and Drug Administration is investigating the cases of two individuals who died after injections with Eli Lilly and Co's long-acting treatment for schizophrenia, Zyprexa Relprevv. Both patients died thre... More »
MRI may help find infection from tainted injection
By Genevra Pittman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Some people who received potentially contaminated steroid injections may benefit from a MRI to check for signs of infection, a new study suggests - even if they don't have obvious symptoms. Resear... More »