by Research Team | Dec 24, 2014 | Health News
Three television ads for e-cigarettes have been banned just weeks after new rules came into effect allowing people to be shown using the devices. Two ads for Must Have, which trades as VIP Electronic Cigarettes, showed a woman exhaling vapour – or...
by Research Team | Dec 24, 2014 | Health News
The Food and Drug Administration has approved a Novo Nordisk diabetes drug as a treatment for obesity. It’s the first injectable drug approved for weight loss.
by Research Team | Dec 24, 2014 | Health News
The first votes of the 2016 campaign won’t be cast for another year but there’s already a race well underway: The Christian primary. Republicans are actively courting white evangelical and born again Christian voters, knowing they will be crucial in...
by Research Team | Dec 24, 2014 | Health News
In this Nov. 26, 2014 photo, homeless men Arnold Kelley, left, 60, and Clint Paul Harris, 35, talk with a reporter with The Associated Press about what they see as the benefits for many homeless people of legalized marijuana in Colorado, inside the Salvation Army...
by Research Team | Dec 24, 2014 | Health News
Ohio health officials say 935 patients with the flu required hospital care last week, nearly doubling the statewide total of flu hospitalizations to more than 1,900 so far this season. Flu season can stretch from autumn into spring, and this year it appears to be...
by Research Team | Dec 23, 2014 | Health News
The Food and Drug Administration granted accelerated approval Monday to a new drug from Bristol-Myers Squibb to treat the deadliest form of skin cancer. The agency approved Opdivo for patients with hard-to-treat melanoma that cannot be removed via surgery or has...