FDA approves 1st drug for moderate & severe eczema cases
Wednesday, 19 April 2017, 16:39
Last update: about 10 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...
Blue is the color of the season at VIP-studded Paris shows
Wednesday, 19 April 2017, 16:30
Last update: about 10 years ago
It's no secret that politics infuses fashion - and some critics are interpreting the mania for blue at Paris Fashion Week as a statement of "the blues" about the perceived rise of...
Saving lives, 1 day at a time, on the deadly Mediterranean
Wednesday, 19 April 2017, 09:11
Last update: about 10 years ago
Associated Press
As usual, it started with a call on a satellite phone from Italian rescue officials in Rome. They were relaying a distress call they'd received from a migrant smuggling ship adrift somewhere off the...
A plan to reduce national suicide rates
Wednesday, 19 April 2017, 08:00
Last update: about 10 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 10 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...
Benetton announces leadership changes as CEO quits
Tuesday, 18 April 2017, 16:29
Last update: about 10 years ago
The Benetton fashion company says its CEO, Marco Airoldi, has resigned and that it has hired a new chief operating officer. Airoldi took the post of CEO in 2014, launching a plan to...