SCIENTISTS FIND ALZHEIMER'S DRUG COULD HELP ROTTEN TEETH GROW BACK

After a while, the tooth will start to rebuild itself, and the sponge will disintegrate, according to the scientists... READ MORE›

'HIGH RISK OF BIAS': DOCTOR RAISES DOUBTS OVER STUDY INTO MORNING-SICKNESS DRUG

For women with high risk of nausea and vomiting in pregnancy, the society recommends vitamin B6 or Diclectin... READ MORE›

MINORITIES FACE UPHILL BATTLE IN GETTING INTO CANCER TRIALS

At Queens Hospital's Cancer Center in New York, researchers are trying to reach disadvantaged patients by bringing clinical trials to them... READ MORE›

3D GLASSES CAN GIVE YOUR DOCTOR A COMPLETE VIEW OF YOUR INSIDES

Age 40 Title Founder of EchoPixel, a four-year-old, 18-employee medical-imaging startup in Mountain View, Calif... READ MORE›

DISMAY AS ALZHEIMER'S DRUG FAILS IN CLINICAL TRIALS

The results, based on 2,000 patients with mild dementia, are a significant blow because there are currently no treatments to slow the effects of Alzheimer's... READ MORE›

400-YEAR-OLD DENTURES MADE FROM HUMAN TEETH UNEARTHED BY ARCHAEOLOGISTS

The teeth were found among the remains of about 100 people... READ MORE›

HOW A PHARMACEUTICAL FIRM PRICED ITS LIFE-SAVING DRUG AT $500K A YEAR

How pharmaceutical company Alexion set the price of the world's most expensive drug... READ MORE›

But in March NHS England suddenly changed its mind, claiming it didn't have the legal power to pay for PrEP... READ MORE›

ALZHEIMER'S TREATMENT WITHIN REACH AFTER SUCCESSFUL DRUG TRIAL

Prof John Hardy, a neuroscientist at UCL who first proposed that amyloid proteins play a central role in Alzheimer's disease, welcomed the results... READ MORE›

6 HOSPITALIZED ONE OF THEM BRAIN-DEAD AFTER DRUG TRIAL IN FRANCE

Deaths or serious adverse reactions during Phase 1 clinical trials are rare... READ MORE›

ONE IN COMA AFTER CLINICAL TRIAL IN FRANCE

The study was a Phase I clinical trial, in which healthy volunteers take the medication to evaluate the safety of its use, the ministry said... READ MORE›

SIERRA LEONE EBOLA NURSES ON STRIKE

The clinic, in Bandajuma near Bo, is the only Ebola treatment centre in southern Sierra Leone... READ MORE›

INVESTIGATORS TO RELEASE RECORDER DATA FROM TRAIN CRASH ON THURSDAY

Poor African women are chosen because they are the high-risk group... READ MORE›

CANADIAN-MADE EBOLA VACCINE BEGINS HUMAN TRIALS IN US

Experimental vaccine has shown to be a??100 percent effectivea?? in preventing spread of Ebola when tested on animals... READ MORE›

'PEOPLE THINK WE WAKE UP AND DECIDE TO BE TRANS'

Transgender stories 'people think we wake up and decide to be trans'... READ MORE›

MERS, EBOLA, BIRD FLU: SCIENCE'S BIG MISSED OPPORTUNITIES

Mers ebola bird flu science's big missed opportunities... READ MORE›

OBAMA NOMINATES ROBERT CALIFF AS FDA COMMISSIONER

WASHINGTON President Barack Obama has nominated Dr. Robert Califf a leading cardiologist and researcher as the next commissioner of the U.S... READ MORE›

FRANCE DRUG TRIAL: BRAIN-DEAD MAN DIES IN HOSPITAL

A man left brain-dead after an experimental drug trial in France has died, local media report... READ MORE›

'SERIOUS ACCIDENT' AT CLINICAL TRIAL IN FRANCE LEAVES ONE 'BRAIN-DEAD' AND SEVERAL HOSPITALISED

French clinical trial goes wrong and hospitalises test subjects... READ MORE›

CANCER CURE COULD LIE IN WASP VENOM SAY BRAZILLIAN RESEARCHERS

This allows all vital molecules required for cells to function properly to leak out, resulting in cancer cells dying... READ MORE›

TO UNDERSTAND GREEK AUSTERITY, YOU SHOULD SEE GEORGE VICHAS' CLINIC

Athens One by one the victims of Greek austerity arrive at George Vichas clinic... READ MORE›

ISLAMIC STATE'S 'WAR MINISTER' OMAR AL-SHISHANI 'CLINICALLY DEAD'

Senior Islamic State commander Omar al-Shishani has been clinically dead for several days following a US air strike in northern Syria, according to a monitoring group... READ MORE›

ALZHEIMER'S GROUP MAY SCRAP EARLY LOOK AT COVETED LILLY DATA

Donald Langevoort, a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, said the Alzheimer's Association's wide access to embargoed materials raises lots of red flags... READ MORE›

FRENCH DRUG TRIAL LEAVES ONE BRAIN DEAD

Europe has strict regulations governing the conduct of clinical trials, with Phase I tests subject to particular scrutiny... READ MORE›

CLINICAL TRIALS FOR THREE NEW EBOLA TREATMENTS TO START IN WEST AFRICA

Clinical trials of three new Ebola treatments are due to start next month in West Africa, MA C decins Sans FrontiA?res has announced... READ MORE›

EBOLA-HIT U.S. MAN'S CONDITION DETERIORATES

An American health care worker who contracted Ebola while volunteering in a Sierra Leone treatment unit has been downgraded to critical condition at the Na... READ MORE›

SENATOR MARKEY PLACES HOLD ON OBAMA'S NOMINEE TO LEAD FDA

A spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the FDA, said it had made addressing the opioid crisis a top priority... READ MORE›

FRENCH DRUG TRIAL DISASTER LEAVES ONE BRAIN DEAD, FIVE INJURED[1]

French Health Minister Marisol Touraine and Gilles Hedan, professor of clinical neurology, attend a news conference in Rennes, France, Jan 15, 2016... READ MORE›

NO SURE WAY TO PREVENT PILOT SUICIDES

Asian airlines including Cathay Pacific, Japan Airlines, Qantas Airways and Singapore Airlines said potential pilots undergo a rigorous medical that includes a psychological test... READ MORE›

MAN DIES AFTER TAKING PART IN BOTCHED FRENCH CLINICAL TRIAL

French health authorities have said three of the hospitalized volunteers face possible brain damage... READ MORE›

HIGH HOPES NEW DRUG COULD BE A 'GAME CHANGER' AGAINST LONG-INCURABLE ALZHEIMER'S

One, called bapineuzumab, also looked promising in the early clinical trials but flopped when it reached Phase 3 trials, which test the drug on larger populations... READ MORE›

THERAPISTS RECOMMEND WORRIED AMERICANS PULL PLUG ON STRESSFUL ELECTION NEWS OR TAKE UP YOGA

Stop reading the news and take up yoga. That's what some therapists in the United States are telling patients stressed out by a nasty presidential campaign... READ MORE›

1 MAN BRAIN DEAD, 5 OTHERS HOSPITALIZED IN FRENCH DRUG TRIAL

The trial involved 90 healthy volunteers who were given the experimental drug in varying doses at different times, she told reporters at a news conference in Rennes... READ MORE›

ALZHEIMER'S DEBATE REVIVED AS BIOGEN'S DRUG TRIAL ADVANCES

Just days after Biogen Inc. revealed promising early data from an experimental Alzheimer's treatment, new research from the Mayo Clinic may revive a long-r... READ MORE›

SEVERAL RECOMMENDATIONS MADE AFTER DEATH OF SAVITA HALAPPANAVAR YET TO BE FULLY IMPLEMENTED

SEVERAL recommendations made following the death of Savita Halappanavar have yet to be fully implemented at the hospital where she died over two years ago... READ MORE›

HOME OFFICE APPROVED DRUG TRIALS ON YOUNG OFFENDERS IN 1960S

Teenage boys at school in North Yorkshire given anticonvulsant drug Beclamide in attempt to improve behaviour... READ MORE›

MEDICAL TRIAL IN FRANCE LEAVES SIX PEOPLE IN SERIOUS CONDITION

The nation's drug safety agency ANSM plans to inspect the clinical trial site... READ MORE›

ONE PERSON BRAIN-DEAD AFTER FRENCH DRUGS TRIAL

Every year thousands of volunteers, often students looking to make extra money, take part in such clinical trials which are seen as safe... READ MORE›

2015 SAW SPIKE IN VIOLENCE, THREATS TARGETING U.S. ABORTION CLINICS

Threats and violence directed at U.S. abortion clinics increased sharply in 2015, according to the National Abortion Federation, which attributed the surge... READ MORE›

STUDIES FIND WORRYING MISUSE OF MEDICINE WORLDWIDE

Up to 70 percent of hysterectomies in the United States, a quarter of knee replacements in Spain and more than half the antibiotics prescribed in China are... READ MORE›

DONALD TRUMP TOLD NOT TO ABANDON OBAMACARE BY WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION

Donald Trump told not to abandon Obamacare by the World Health Organisation... READ MORE›

TRUMP EYING VENTURE CAPITALIST DR. SCOTT GOTTLIEB AS FDA HEAD

From 2005-2007 he was the FDA's deputy commissioner for medical and scientific affairs... READ MORE›

MORE AMERICANS EVACUATED AFTER EBOLA SCARE

A Partners In Health clinician working in Sierra Leone has tested positive for the Ebola virus... READ MORE›

HEALTH MINISTERS TAKE ON PRESCRIPTION DRUG COSTS GOING INTO FEDERAL MEETING

Eric Hoskins, Ontario's health minister, said the ministers agreed to formally create a working group to tackle issues of equity and access to prescription drugs... READ MORE›

PATIENT DIES AFTER TAKING PART IN BOTCHED FRENCH DRUG TRIAL

The drug is aimed at easing pain and mood and anxiety troubles, as well as motor problems linked to neurodegenerative illnesses... READ MORE›

MAN DIES AFTER FRENCH DRUG TRIAL DESCRIBED AS 'ACCIDENT OF EXCEPTIONAL GRAVITY'

The Rennes University Hospital announced the death in a statement on Sunday, but didn't identify the patient, who had been earlier declared brain dead... READ MORE›

BOTCHED FRENCH DRUG TRIAL LEAVES MAN BRAIN-DEAD, 5 IN HOSPITAL

Edan said there's no known treatment for the experimental drug that Biotrial was testing... READ MORE›

OBAMA VETOES GOP BILL TO REPEAL AFFORDABLE CARE ACT, GUT PLANNED PARENTHOOD FUNDING

The bill would have undone key parts of U.S. President Barack Obama's landmark healthcare law... READ MORE›

AMERICAN INFECTED WITH EBOLA RETURNING FOR TREATMENT

Of the 10 people treated for Ebola so far int he United States, eight have survived... READ MORE›

EBOLA: INFECTED AMERICAN HEALTH WORKER ARRIVES IN U.S. FOR TREATMENT

These individuals are volunteers in the Ebola response and are currently being monitored in Sierra Leone... READ MORE›

EBOLA SCARE AT ASDA AS PATIENT TESTED FOR KILLER VIRUS

We have advised all front line medical practitioners dealing with patients to be alert to signs and symptoms of Ebola in those returning from affected areas... READ MORE›