by Research Team | Nov 15, 2015 | Health News
The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new drug from AstraZeneca for patients with lung cancer that has spread despite earlier treatments. Regulators approved the drug based on two studies of about 400 people that showed roughly 60 percent of patients treated...
by Research Team | Nov 15, 2015 | Health News
Crossing new frontiers in infertility treatment and organ transplantation, Cleveland Clinic doctors hope to transplant a uterus from a deceased donor into a woman without one. The innovative procedure — tentatively scheduled for the next few months — would...
by Research Team | Nov 15, 2015 | Health News
Most of a $3.5 million no-bid contract that Republican Gov. Mike Pence awarded to an anti-abortion nonprofit organization that pushes abstinence as the only method of birth control will be spent providing services to pregnant women who choose not to have an abortion....
by Research Team | Nov 15, 2015 | Health News
The government says it’s trying to get better value for money but others fear our healthcare system will become more American. Health Minister Sussan Ley launched an online survey last Sunday, asking voters what they think about private health cover.
by Research Team | Nov 14, 2015 | Health News
Doctors have long known that systolic blood pressure below 120 was considered normal and meant a lower risk of heart disease and kidney problems. But they would often treat patients only if that top number crept above 140, the threshold for officially having high...