Purdue Pharma LP's hydrocodone bitartrate tablet (HYD) is undergoing "priority review" by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the company recently announced.
A drug combination that will help cure tuberculosis sooner has been devised by South African researchers.
An article published in the journal Nature looked into psychological therapy that causes brain changes within patients of mental disorders. Though neuroscience and clinical science are different and there is a "culture gap" between the two, the essay suggests that the two disciplines must be combined and explored together for the best results.
Particular parasites Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii), found in cat’s intestines can help cure cancer, say scientists. The parasite, according to researchers causes a person’s immune system to react in a particular manner that parallels how the immune system attacks a tumor.
Canola oil, along with low- glycemic-load (low-GL) food (legumes, temperature-climate fruit, and barley), help lower blood sugar levels in patients suffering from type 2 diabetes, reveals a study published in the journal Diabetes Care.
Tracey Ann Ridley, 30, from Hastings, reportedly ended her life after her several calls to the helpline went unanswered. In order to make the 108 helplines (spread across the nation) more accessible and organised, the Ministry of Health, on the recommendation of Coroner Garry Evans, will be implementing a single, integrated telephone helpline.
An Australian professor from Southern Cross University, Philip Hayward, said that people should start eating cane toads, sea urchins and camel meat for future sustainability and that it would become regular options in supermarket freezers.
New findings suggest that vampire bat venom can help cure stroke and high blood pressure.
Sass Mahuika, a grandmother from Gisborne, New Zealand, has set an example to thousands of 57-year-olds by losing 120 Kg’s and starting to walk, even though the doctors had told her that she would never walk again.
A new study shows that babies, until they are eight months, can differentiate between speech sounds in languages more than one and that babies' brains practise speech even before they begin to talk.
Tessa Evans was born without nose, a very rare facial anomaly called ‘arhinia’. The little girl, who is now 18-months-old, has helped in spreading awareness about her condition across the globe.
Running, in place of ‘recreational drugs,’ brings in an endorphin rush, which in turn gives rise to a feel good factor, reveals a study. The ‘high’ that one can experience during a race, or a training session, is being referred to as ‘flow’ by psychologists.
Four-year-old Madison Merrick, who was born with a bowel outside of her body, has been waiting for a bowel donor at the Birmingham Children's Hospital, UK, for the past one year.
Men, after 39, lose their sex appeal and begin looking like father figures to younger ladies, reveal a study conducted by Crown Clinic in Manchester. According to a new study, men after the age of 39 become sexually invisible to younger women
About 48,000 X-rays taken at public hospitals at the Gold Coast since 2013 were not reviewed by a radiologist.
Scientists have claimed that to fight the obesity crisis in Britain and to reduce type II diabetes, 'food capsules' can be used.
Regular eye tests can help diagnose onset of Alzheimer’s disease, even before the symptoms appear, revealed studies. Two different techniques were used and both showed there was an indication of probable Alzheimer's disease in retina and lens of the eyes of individuals tested.
The weather is not responsible for back pain, said researchers at the George Institute for Global Health at the University of Sydney, Australia. According to the study, published this week in the journal ‘Arthritis Care & Research’, there is no connection between the weather and chronic pain conditions, which include severe back ache as well.
Cycling does not cause infertility, contrary to age-old belief. However, it does raise risk of prostate cancer, say scientists at the University College London
Forty-year-old Willis Tepania, a father from Kaitaia, reportedly died of a cardiac arrest, five hours after participating in the ice challenge, which also included consuming nearly a liter of bourbon.
Rotten Eggs and flatulence have hydrogen sulfide, which when used in the right dosage, can help in the treatment and cure of diabetes, arthritis, heart failure, dementia and aging, says scientists at the University of Exeter.
Americans prefer to consume weight loss medications drugs and weight loss surgery in comparison to self-modification, which includes a healthy diet and exercise, reveals a study published in the Science Daily. However, previous studies have shown that weight loss medications drugs and weight loss surgery have extreme side effects and is not recommended by most doctors.
Saskatchewan health-care workers have been advised to wear mask or get influenza vaccination to avoid the spread of flu. The Ministry of Health announced the "immunize-or-mask" ultimatum after recommendation from the Saskatchewan's medical health officers and other professionals in the health industry.
Junior athletes, as young as 12, are reportedly using performance-enhancing drugs.
Scientists have found indicators that can help predict if a teenager is into binge drinking.
A registered nurse, 46 years of age, has been charged with the murder of two elderly women at an aged care facility in New South Wales.
Pancreatic cancer has the highest mortality rate of all cancers and it looks like a breakthrough has been made for its care by researchers at the University of Queensland.
Digital health revolution arrives at a time when the United States population is getting older, sicker and sedentary.
Two questions in the preliminary screening are all required to determine alcohol abuse, according to study, published in the British Journal of General Practice (GP). Along with the CAGE questionnaire, which includes an additional four questions, the approach to find out hidden substance abuse achieved an accuracy of 90.9 per cent.
British scientists at the Oxford University and Kings College London have developed a blood test to detect people with failing memories, who might in future develop Alzheimer's disease and dementia.
