WASHINGTON (AP) — Amgen on Tuesday received European approval for its first-of-a-kind cholesterol drug that lowers levels of the artery-clogging substance more than older drugs that have been prescribed for decades.
Sophie Milrom, founder of healthy popsicle company EatPops, describes healthy pops as “green juice and frozen yogurt having a baby.”
Bachelorette Kaitlyn Bristowe has received death threats and online harassment because of some of her actions on the ABC show.
Health-obsessed former Soviet Turkmenistan is the country with the world’s lowest proportion of smokers, World Health Organisation chief Margaret Chan said during a visit to the isolated nation on Tuesday. Chan said that just 8 percent of the population smoked, according to WHO figures. “Recently a WHO overview showed that in Turkmenistan only 8 percent of the population smokes,” Chan told the country’s authoritarian President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, who is a
Donations to Greek children’s charities have dived since the government imposed drastic curbs on bank withdrawals, putting some volunteer-run services at risk just when they are needed most. “The Smile of the Child” – a charity which receives almost no state funding – said much of its income had been almost wiped out since the government introduced capital controls just over three weeks ago to avert a run on the
WASHINGTON (AP) — New research shows older women with mild memory impairment worsened about twice as fast as men.
By Andrew Chung NEW YORK (Reuters) – Novartis AG unit Sandoz must wait until Sept. 2 to sell Zarxio, the first biosimilar drug to be approved in the United States and a copycat version of Amgen Inc’s $1.2 billion-a-year anti-infection drug Neupogen, a U.S. appeals court said on Tuesday. The ruling stemmed from a lawsuit that Amgen filed last October in federal court in San Francisco in which it accused
By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Kids with psychiatric problems may be more likely to have health, legal, financial and social difficulties as adults even when their mental health issues don’t persist beyond childhood, a study suggests. Researchers tracked 1,420 kids between ages nine and 16, assessing them on up to six occasions for common psychiatric diagnoses as well as mental health problems that didn’t rise to the level of
And how to minimize the potential for conflict in each one.
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