(Reuters) – Alabama, one of two U.S. states that segregate inmates with HIV from the rest of their prison population, will seek to defend the policy against a class action lawsuit headed to trial in federal court on Monday.The American Civil Liberties Union sued Alabama in 2011 for what the group co

The number of complaints made to the General Medical Council about doctors has risen 23% in the past year, the regulator says.The GMC report showed there were 8,781 in 2011 compared to 7,153 in 2010.The rise is similar to the one the year before and continues a trend which has seen complaints jump b

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(Reuters Health) – People who smoke or drink heavily may develop pancreatic cancer at an earlier age than folks who avoid those habits, a new study suggests.It’s long been known that smoking is a risk factor for developing pancreatic cancer – a disease that is rarely caught early and has a grim prog

(Reuters Health) – The short-term benefits of weight loss surgery are well known in severely obese people, but a new study finds that improvements in diabetes and blood pressure may hold up for years after the procedures.At six-year patient follow-ups, three quarters of people who’d undergone gastri

(Reuters) – Cuts in global funding for Eastern Europe and Central Asia are undermining the fight against tuberculosis (TB) and the AIDS virus, threatening to push already high rates of disease and drug-resistance even higher, experts said on Wednesday.In a report by leading European non-governmental

Up to a million people in the UK have “completely preventable” severe headaches caused by taking too many painkillers, doctors have said.They said some were trapped in a “vicious cycle” of taking pain relief, which then caused even more headaches.The warning came as part of the National Institute fo

Venomous reptiles may provide a good source for new drugs for human diseases, researchers in Liverpool say.Venom has already been used to create drugs, but the chemicals in it are often too deadly for human consumption.However, a study, published in the journal Nature Communications, has shown snake

อธิบดีกรมทรัพย์สินฯ ชี้ ทำเอฟทีเอไทย-อียู กระทบการเข้าถึงยาของคนไทย ย้ำ ต้องรอบคอบ นักวิชาการแนะควรเจรจาเฉพาะส่วน อย่าเอาประเด็นทางสังคม สุขภาพ และสิ่งแวดล้อมไปแลก ด้าน สธ.เตรียมร่อนหนังสือชี้แจง พณ.ขยายอายุคุ้มครองสิทธิบัตรทำไทยเสียงบนำเข้ายามากขึ้น ผลิตเองได้น้อยลงวันนี้ (18 ก.ย.) นางปัจฉิมา ธนสมบ