(Bloomberg Review) – Is Thursday’s $1.2 billion antitrust settlement between the Federal Trade Commission and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries a victory for consumers? Or is it a sign...
(The Washington Post) – Robert Zarr is walking from his Columbia Heights medical practice toward Meridian Hill Park, talking about what’s going on inside his head....
(The Washington Post) – Robert Zarr is walking from his Columbia Heights medical practice toward Meridian Hill Park, talking about what’s going on inside his head....
(Reuters Health) – People with heart conditions may benefit from using indoor air purifiers, suggests a small study from China. While the study can’t say air...
(Reuters Health) – People with heart conditions may benefit from using indoor air purifiers, suggests a small study from China. While the study can’t say air...
(The Guardian) – Certain breast cancers spread to the bones using an enzyme that drills “seed holes” for planting new tumors, research has shown. The discovery...
LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A major international study sought to settle how soon is best to start HIV treatment — and the...
(India Times) – India is home to the highest number of hungry people in the world, at 194 million, surpassing China, according to United Nations annual hunger report. At the global level,...
ROBERT BURNS, AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday it is investigating what the Pentagon called an...
ROBERT BURNS, AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday it is investigating what the Pentagon called an...
CANDICE CHOI, AP Food Industry Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Taco Bell and Pizza Hut say they’re getting rid of artificial colors and flavors, making them...
BRISTOL, England (UPI) – Dyslexia is not connected to bad eyesight, according to a study which found that many patients had near-perfect vision at the same...
NEW DELHI (CBS News) – The World Health Organization has adopted a plan to combat an alarming resistance against antibiotic drugs. It’s an issue health experts warn will...
(Reuters) – Drug developer GlobeImmune Inc said its experimental hepatitis B drug did not reduce infection in patients after 24 weeks of treatment in a...
By Paul Rockwell “My return to farming was a kind of homecoming,” writes Will Allen in his riveting autobiography, “The Good Food Revolution”. His...
LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Sticky plaque gets the most attention, but now healthy seniors at risk of Alzheimer’s are letting scientists peek...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Columnist WASHINGTON (NNPA) – When Cheeraz Gormon received an invitation to lobby in Washington on behalf of President Barack Obama’s Clean Power...
Published in The Huffington Post By Heidi Boghosian, New York City Attorney, and Johanna Fernandez, professor of History at Baruch College (CUNY) What does...
Compiled from wire reports Special to the NNPA via the Florida Courier For the first time, a national scientific study has found a higher...
Compiled from wire reports Special to the NNPA via the Florida Courier For the first time, a national scientific study has found a higher...
Damon Tweedy, THE NEW YORK TIMES DURHAM, N.C. (The New York Times) — In virtually every field of medicine, black patients as a group fare the...
BOUBACAR DIALLO, Associated Press CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Relatives of Ebola victims are transporting their bodies on public transportation in Guinea, seating the corpses upright between...
BOUBACAR DIALLO, Associated Press CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Relatives of Ebola victims are transporting their bodies on public transportation in Guinea, seating the corpses upright between...
(Utah People’s Post) – Sleep problems are often caused by various mental illnesses, such as depression or post-traumatic stress disorder, but a new research shows...
(Utah People’s Post) – Sleep problems are often caused by various mental illnesses, such as depression or post-traumatic stress disorder, but a new research shows...