Study: Most Cancers Result From Lifestyle, Not Bad Luck
A new study suggests that genetic "bad luck," which predisposes us to cancer, may be less of an influence on our risk for the disease...
FDA Eases Restrictions, Allowing Gay Men to Donate Blood
A nurse draws a blood sample in September 2014. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has overturned a 30-year ban on blood donations...
HIV Drug Shortage Plagues Uganda
A doctor draws blood to check for HIV/AIDS at a mobile testing unit in a suburb of Uganda’s capital, Kampala, May 16, 2014. KAMPALA,...
India Looks to Increase Generic Drug Exports to Africa
India is looking to extend the reach of its lucrative generic drug industry into Africa, where the need for low-cost medications is...
There's a new type of medicine that could save the US billions over the next decade — but not ev
At a point in American history when the public has never been so outraged by high drug prices, a new type of drug could be a major part...
Prevalance of this ancient STD increased in every region of the US last year
"Syphilis," painted by the British artist Richard Tennant Cooper in 1912. “In the yere of Chryst 1493 or there aboute this most foule and...
Doctor Who Caused Mass HIV Outbreak in Cambodia Sentenced to 25 Years
An HIV-positive patient rests at the Khmer-Soviet Hospital in Phnom Penh, Nov. 29, 2011. PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA—An unlicensed doctor who...
Gene Summit Organizers Stress Caution on Human Gene Editing
Human chromosomes, where DNA resides and does its work. WASHINGTON—Scientists and ethicists at a global meeting in Washington on Thursday...
Liberia's Last 2 Ebola Patients Recover, Leave Hospital
MONROVIA—Liberia released its last two known Ebola cases from the hospital Thursday as it starts a new countdown to declaring itself free...
A Sour, Hard-to-Eat, Occasionally Deadly Fruit Makes Comeback
Let’s face it. The grapefruit is cumbersome and often sour. Also, it can kill you. So of course Stewart and Lynda Resnick decided it will...
