 |
| Health/Medicine |
|---|
WASHINGTON (AFP) - A panel of experts advising the US Food and Drug Administration voted Thursday against approving for sale a new obesity treatment called Qnexa, citing safety risks.Published 15 days, 22 hours, 15 minutes ago |
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Researchers said Thursday they have identified gene variants that help explain high rates of renal disease among African-Americans, who have a four times greater risk of kidney problems than whites.Published 15 days, 22 hours, 18 minutes ago |
VIENNA (AFP) - Cutbacks in rich-world funding for AIDS treatment could sentence millions of sufferers to death for lack of access to anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs, Medecins Sans Frontieres warned Thursday.Published 16 days, 3 hours, 32 minutes ago |
WASHINGTON (AFP) - After decades of trying to develop a vaccine against AIDS, global health authorities are finally beginning to make "significant advances" towards their goal, Anthony Fauci, head of the US institute of infectious diseases, told AFP.Published 16 days, 14 hours, 14 minutes ago |
BEIJING (AFP) - One child died and more than 100 villagers fell ill in southwestern China after they took anti-malarial medicine, state media reported, in the latest product-safety scare.Published 16 days, 15 hours, 21 minutes ago |
PARIS (AFP) - AIDS experts gather in Vienna on Sunday for a six-day rally on the new options emerging in a war which after nearly three turbulent decades is entering a stable, promising phase.Published 16 days, 18 hours, 47 minutes ago |
WASHINGTON (AFP) - A majority of members of a key advisory committee have recommended that the US government allow diabetes drug Avandia to stay on the market with greater restrictions on its sale.Published 16 days, 19 hours ago |
SEOUL (AFP) - Surgery without anaesthetics, unsterilised needles and epidemics worsened by malnutrition illustrate the desperate state of North Korea's health care system, Amnesty International said Thursday.Published 16 days, 19 hours, 25 minutes ago |
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Three waterborne diseases account for hospitalizations that cost the US health care system around 539 million dollars a year, the Centers for Disease Control said Wednesday.Published 17 days, 1 hour, 58 minutes ago |
VATICAN CITY (AFP) - A court-ordered study has found that electromagnetic waves beamed by Vatican Radio leave residents living near the station's antennas at a higher risk of cancer, Italian media said Wednesday.Published 17 days, 2 hours, 56 minutes ago |
