NEW YORK - New Yorkers looking for a quick beauty fix risk death from unlicensed practitioners offering oil injections to enhance prized body parts, health authorities warned Friday.
NEW YORK - New Yorkers looking for a quick beauty fix risk death from unlicensed practitioners offering oil injections to enhance prized body parts, health authorities warned Friday.
PARIS - These are dangerous times: suicide rates go up in the Spring and during an economic downturn, an analysis of suicide trends published on Friday shows.
WASHINGTON - Two genetic variants linked to an increased risk of ischemic stroke, the third leading cause of death in the United States, have been identified for the first time in a study released.
NEW YORK – Replacing sugar-laden drinks with water has a dramatic impact on the amount of calories kids consume and may help in the fight against childhood obesity, researchers report.
CHICAGO - People with type 1 diabetes who got stem cell transplants were able to go as long as four years without needing insulin treatments, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
LONDON - A new drug against Alzheimer’s disease, developed by British researchers, has shown promise in tests on a handful of patients.
PARIS - French drugmaker Ipsen said on Tuesday it was in talks with the U.S health authority to detail any possible side effects of its anti-wrinkle drug Reloxin before it can win final marketing approval.
TRENTON, New Jersey - U.S. diabetics are increasingly risking life and limb by cutting back on or even going without doctor visits, insulin, medicines and blood-sugar testing as they lose income and health insurance in the recession, an Associated Press analysis has found.
SYDNEY - For half her life, 66-year-old Gael Lander struggled with high blood pressure that did not respond to the drugs usually prescribed.
BERLIN - Women who enjoy drinking coffee may be lowering their risk of suffering a stroke, new US research suggests. Women who drank five to seven cups of coffee a week were 12 per cent less likely to have a stroke than were those who downed just one cup a month, the study among 83,000 women revealed.