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Eating a handful of walnuts and other tree nuts was once again associated with reduced cardiovascular disease risk. Cardiovascular conditions cover a range of heart and blood vessel issues and are mostly related to ather...

Novartis announced last Friday that the FDA approved its combination drug for metastatic melanoma or advanced skin cancer. The regulatory nod for the combination therapy was based on two years of overall patient survival...

Harvard researchers found low-fat diets do not have long-term benefits for weight control. Health experts suggest high fat, low carb diet regimens work better for long-term weight loss.

Natural remedies may not be as safe as they look like. In a recent report, a woman's cardiovascular health was placed at risk after drinking an alternative medicine for pain relief.

A new study refutes the continuum theory of sexual orientation, which hypothesizes that people move along a path from homosexuality to heterosexuality. It turns out that gays and lesbians are part of an assemblage that i...

Novartis is set to pay the U.S. government $390 million in settlement over charges that the Swiss drug maker engaged in improper business conduct with specialty pharmacies. The federal suit alleged that Novartis gave kic...

(O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law) A trio of global health law experts from Georgetown warn the window for fundamental reform of the International Health Regulations -- opened by the Ebola epidemic --...

(University of East Anglia) Looking after people with late-stage Ebola at home puts people at greatest risk of catching it themselves -- according to research from the University of East Anglia.

(Diabetologia) A major new study has found a significant reduction in diabetes-related amputations since the mid-1990s, credited to improvements in diabetes care over this period. The research is published in Diabetologi...