Marie-Paule Kieny, assistant director general at the United Nations health agency, said failure to disclose trial results led to misinformation and could result in skewed priorities for research and public health interventions. In recent years, the pharmaceuticals industry has gone a long way to commit to disclosing results for new clinical studies, but critics argue it is still not doing enough to ensure doctors have access to all drug data.
Corinthians striker Paolo Guerrero has contracted dengue fever and will be out of action for at least two weeks, doctors in Sao Paulo said on Tuesday. “According to the latest clinical and laboratory tests, he is well, with the diagnosis confirmed as dengue,” the Hospital Sao Luiz said in a statement. Sao Paulo is in the midst of a dengue epidemic, with the number of cases up from last year.
PARIS (AP) — France’s lower house of Parliament has approved a draft law tackling a range of public health problems from smoking and drinking to obesity and anorexia.
When pregnant women develop gestational diabetes early in pregnancy, their children may face a higher risk of developing autism, researchers said Tuesday. While the findings in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) does not prove that diabetes in pregnancy causes autism, researchers said their findings highlight a link that deserves further study. Gestational diabetes affects nearly one in 10 women, and is a high blood sugar condition that
The 20-year-old victim sustained third-degree burns on half of her body.
“You should be ashamed!” read the note tucked onto Harley Jo Skorpenske’s windshield. “You were not raised as you should have been.”
Late NFL star running back Walter “Sweetness” Payton said, “We are stronger together than we are alone.”This weekend I experienced this through building true community.I went to speak at a conference on Yoga at UC Berkeley.What I experienced there was more than just sharing and gaining information. I experienced inter-generational,…
CHICAGO (AP) — Your private medical information is under threat. That’s according to a study that found almost 30 million health records nationwide were involved in criminal theft, malicious hacking or other data breaches over four years. The incidents seem to be increasing.
France, home of historic Gitanes and Gauloises cigarettes with their iconic blue-and-white packaging, will require all tobacco companies to sell their wares in plain boxes from next year in an anti-smoking crackdown. Tobacco firms will from May 2016 have to sell cigarettes in plain packaging with photographs of internal organs damaged by smoking, with the brand appearing only in small lettering. Smoking will be banned in the presence of children
By Umaru Fofana FREETOWN (Reuters) – Schools in Sierra Leone reopened on Tuesday after closing for nine months due to an Ebola epidemic that killed 3,800 people, but teachers and aid workers said attendance was low due to lingering fears of the disease. The authorities have waived fees at state schools and hope 1.8 million children will return to catch up on a lost academic year in the impoverished country