NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The number of young children going to the emergency room after taking too much cough and cold medicine was cut in half after drug companies took medications for their age group off the market, according to a new study.
LONDON (Reuters) - Around a billion people cannot afford any health services, and paying for healthcare pushes about 100 million people a year into poverty, the World Health Organisation said on Monday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the second human trial of human embryonic stem cells — this one testing cells in people with a progressive form of blindness, the company said on Monday.
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Aid supplies to combat Haiti’s deadly cholera epidemic are flowing again into the country’s northern regions after protests by Haitians blaming U.N. troops for the outbreak, humanitarian groups said on Sunday.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Concerns about liver injuries in kids who take the common painkiller acetaminophen — sold as Tylenol in the U.S. — are unfounded, researchers said on Monday.
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Using condoms may sometimes be justified to stop the spread of AIDS, Pope Benedict says in a new book, in surprise comments that relax one of the Vatican’s most controversial positions.
PUNTA DEL ESTE, Uruguay (Reuters) - World health officials recommended on Saturday limiting additives that make cigarettes more palatable, but they postponed until 2012 a number of other issues after five days of deliberations.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A proposal to overhaul the costly Medicare and Medicaid health programs met opposition on Thursday in a closed-door meeting of a presidential commission looking for ways to balance the U.S. budget.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Babies born late at night or in the wee hours of the morning may have a slightly higher risk of rare brain problems compared to infants delivered during the day, suggests a new study.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The obesity epidemic has taken hold in many developing countries, new research finds, with the burden weighing almost entirely on the nations’ wealthy.