Epilepsy

Young Scot ‘crippled’ by epilepsy gets first dose of medicinal cannabis

27 Aug 2018 • 4 comments

The five-year-old, who is a P2 pupil at Edinburgh’s Clermiston Primary School, was finally given medicinal cannabis after falling heavily and cutting his head during a seizure on Tuesday night. He...

Brexit's Impact on Healthcare

24 Aug 2018 • 1 comment

Britain is preparing to airlift in medicines with a short shelf life if London cannot strike a Brexit deal with the EU, the government said Thursday. London has plans to ensure a continued supply of...

Measles Cases Hit Record High in Europe

22 Aug 2018

Cases of measles in Europe have hit a record high, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). More than 41,000 people have been infected in the first six months of 2018, leading to 37 deaths. L...

Diabetes (Type 2)
Diabetes insipidus
Diabetic neuropathy

Rise in type 2 diabetes in young people in England and Wales

21 Aug 2018 • 4 comments

The number of children and young people being treated for type 2 diabetes in England and Wales has gone up from 507 to 715 in four years, new figures show. More than three-quarters were also obese,...

Bloomberg targets Big Tobacco's 'underhanded tactics'

14 Aug 2018

Paris, Aug 14, 2018 (AFP) - Billionaire former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg on Tuesday gave a trio of anti-tobacco crusaders $20 million to up their game against an industry aggressively...

Coronary heart disease

European regulator launches review of recalled heart drug

3 Aug 2018

London, Aug 2, 2018 (AFP) - The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said Thursday it is conducting a review of the health effects on patients of a widely used blood pressure medication recalled around...

Deadly heatwaves threaten China's northern breadbasket

2 Aug 2018

Paris, Aug 1, 2018 (AFP) - The North China Plain, home to nearly 400 million people, could become a life-threatening inferno during future heat waves if climate change continues apace, researchers...

Frontotemporal dementia

Teetotallers, like big drinkers, more prone to dementia

2 Aug 2018 • 6 comments

Paris, Aug 2, 2018 (AFP) - People who have sworn off alcohol for decades or longer run a higher risk of dementia late in life than moderate drinkers, according to a new study. Long-term teetotallers...

Parkinson's disease

Japan human trial tests iPS cell treatment for Parkinson's

31 Jul 2018

Tokyo, July 30, 2018 (AFP) - Japanese researchers on Monday announced the first human trial using a kind of stem cell to treat Parkinson's disease, building on earlier animal trials. The research...

UK doctors given green light to prescribe cannabis

27 Jul 2018 • 27 comments

London, July 26, 2018 (AFP) - British doctors will be able to prescribe medicinal cannabis, the government announced Thursday following a review -- but insisted it was not a first step towards...

Skin cancer

World-first melanoma blood test detects early stages of deadly skin cancer

25 Jul 2018

Australian scientists have developed the world’s first blood test to detect melanoma in its early stages. Early trials of the test involving 209 people showed it was capable of picking up early stage...

HIV/AIDS

Concerns over HIV resurgence dominates world AIDS conference

24 Jul 2018

Amsterdam, July 23, 2018 (AFP) - Concerns over an HIV resurgence caused by strict drug laws fuelling an epidemic blamed on needle sharing dominated a world AIDS assembly that opened in Amsterdam...