by Research Team | Nov 16, 2015 | Health News
Scientists working with animals say they’ve made an advance in efforts to develop gene therapy that one day might treat a fatal neurodegenerative disease in children. Scientists working with animals say they’ve made an advance in efforts to develop gene...
by Research Team | Nov 16, 2015 | Health News
American adults who are uninsured or on Medicaid smoke at rates more than double those for adults with private health insurance or Medicare, according to a study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly...
by Research Team | Nov 16, 2015 | Health News
Blood pressure is a strong indicator of cardiovascular risk, but the best methods of lowering it have long been debated.
by Research Team | Nov 15, 2015 | Health News
New government figures show Medicare spending on breakthrough medications for hepatitis C will nearly double this year, passing $9 billion.
by Research Team | Nov 15, 2015 | Health News
Merck & Co. will continue a huge patient study of an experimental cholesterol medicine – the last one standing in a once-promising new drug class – after an independent monitoring committee recommended the study continue.
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...
