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New help for that bane of middle-age: blurry close-up vision

Friday, 21 April 2017, 16:40 Last update: about 9 years ago

Squinting while texting? Always losing your reading glasses? An eye implant that takes about 10 minutes to put in place is the newest in a list of surgical repairs for the blurry close-up vision that...

Mallinckrodt to pay $35M in deal to end feds' opioid probe

Thursday, 20 April 2017, 16:39 Last update: about 9 years ago

A top maker of brand-name and generic narcotic painkillers has agreed to pay the U.S. government $35 million to resolve a probe of its distribution of those drugs. Mallinckrodt PLC said Monday it...

FDA approves 1st drug for moderate & severe eczema cases

Wednesday, 19 April 2017, 16:39 Last update: about 9 years ago

U.S. regulators have approved the first powerful, injected medicine to treat serious cases of the skin condition eczema. The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved Dupixent...

A plan to reduce national suicide rates

Wednesday, 19 April 2017, 08:00 Last update: about 9 years ago Joanna Demarco

Imagine that someone is contemplating ending their life, and goes to one of Malta’s most likely places to do so. At each such location there will be a fluorescent pole and deterrent/preventative...

A 'sci-fi' cancer therapy fights brain tumours, study finds

Tuesday, 18 April 2017, 16:37 Last update: about 9 years ago

It sounds like science fiction, but a cap-like device that makes electric fields to fight cancer improved survival for the first time in more than a decade for people with deadly brain tumors, final...

Neuralta – a supplement that helps combat stress

Monday, 17 April 2017, 14:57 Last update: about 9 years ago

Stress is often related to external factors such as the physical environment, including our job, our relationships with others, our home, and whatever we are confronted with in life - challenges,...

Testosterone gel shows no benefit for older men's memories

Saturday, 15 April 2017, 16:01 Last update: about 9 years ago

Testosterone treatment did not improve older men's memory or mental function in the latest results from landmark government research that challenges the anti-aging claims of popular...

UK rejects attempt to challenge assisted suicide laws

Friday, 14 April 2017, 16:00 Last update: about 9 years ago

Britain's High Court has denied a bid by a terminally ill man to challenge the law on assisted suicide, ruling that the issue was already considered in recent years and does not merit further...

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