(Reuters) – A U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel on Thursday recommended two drugs for combating different forms of vision loss that can lead to blindness among a range of adults, including diabetics and the elderly.The FDA advisory committee of outside experts gave its support to Swiss-based R

All two to 17-year-olds in the UK are to be offered annual flu vaccinations.If 30% take up the offer, there will be 11,000 fewer hospitalisations and 2,000 fewer deaths each year, the chief medical officer for England says.The children will be immunised using a nasal spray rather than an injection,

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — In the Inland Empire, an economically depressed region in Southern California, President Obama’s health care law is expected to extend insurance coverage to more than 300,000 people by 2014. But coverage will not necessarily translate into care: Local health experts doubt there w

The outbreak of whooping cough in England and Wales has spread to very young babies who are most at risk of severe complications and death, the Health Protection Agency has warned.There were another 675 cases in June bringing the total to 2,466 for 2012 so far.At this stage last year there had only

(Reuters Health) – A new, small study suggests medicinal marijuana may impair users’ driving skills – but might be missed by typical sobriety tests.At doses used in AIDS, cancer and pain patients, people weaved side to side more and had a slower reaction time in the hours after using the drug, resea

The license termination, which concerns three clinical-stage products using Acura’s Aversion technology, will be effective a year from Thursday, when Pfizer notified the company.“We will evaluate our strategy for these products (being returned) over the coming months, including possible partnering w

Since Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is high on the global health agenda, governments of many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have pledged to increase health investments in order to offer universal access to essential health services. Health technology assessment (HTA) has been recognized

The rejection follows a unanimous vote against the drug’s approval in early May by advisors to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, with panel members expressing concern that the company had only done a 16-week study.The agency has requested additional clinical data, including chemistry, manufactu

NHS urged to make reduction of problem a priority as overweight and teenage mothers found to be most likely to sufferOne in 10 women who have a baby by caesarean section go on to develop an infection around their scar, which causes them pain and discomfort and forces some to go back into hospital to

The Lancet“No treatment for the disease of addiction was available there. Once a month or so we marched around for a couple of hours chanting slogans”, Huong Son, who had been detained for 4 years in a so-called drug treatment centre in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, told Human Rights Watch (HRW). Son’s