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UK's additional restriction to tobacco products comes into force on May 21. Here's what you have to know about the stricter measures that will be implemented.

John Morrell and Co. made a recall of two of its beef franks products. The FSIS announced the recall was due to a possible metal contamination.

Researchers discovered that Aedes aegypti, the mosquito responsible for transmitting Zika virus, can also infect people with dengue and chikungunya in one bite. However, scientists claimed that infection with three disea...

(NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at Guy's and St Thomas' and King's College London) Patients suffering from severe lung disease could see their lives transformed thanks to a 'game-changing' clinical trial carried out by ...

(Wiley) A new study describes a standardized assessment that ensures that students who graduate from UK medical schools have achieved a minimum standard of knowledge and skill related to prescribing medications.

(The JAMA Network Journals) Physicians were more accurate in predicting the likelihood of death and less accurate in predicting cognitive abilities in six months for critically ill intensive care unit (ICU) patients; nur...

(The JAMA Network Journals) Among patients with an excess of carbon dioxide in their blood (persistent hypercapnia) following a flare-up (acute exacerbation) of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), in-home use o...

(Cleveland Clinic) Sixty years after Cleveland Clinic researchers first isolated the role of angiotensin II in controlling blood pressure, a new international study led by Cleveland Clinic researchers shows that the comp...

New research suggests that fatalities from Chagas disease may be under-reported due to its non-symptomatic stage. Trypanosoma cruzi increases the risk of death in infected individuals.