Category: Health (Page 7)
According to the UK government, the new rules allowing pharmacists to write patients’ prescriptions will benefit millions of people and bring an end to the “8 am scramble
U.S. cigarette smoking dropped to another all-time low last year, with 1 in 9 adults saying they were current smokers, according to government survey data. Meanwhile, electronic c…
Doctor Bruce Chater has happily worked in rural areas all his life.
And he wants others to do the same.
“I’ve been working for really 30 years to try and ge…
California voters would decide whether to fund a major expansion of housing and treatment for residents suffering from mental illness and addiction, under the lat…
In one suburb of Abidjan, Ivory Coast's port city and fast-growing economic hub, many communities find themselves without clean water amid the United Nations’ World Water Day.
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Health authorities in Mexico said they will use more traditional medicine and more Cuban doctors in the country’s woefully under-equipped public hospital system.
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Drugs known as statins are the first-choice treatment for high cholesterol but millions of people who can’t or won’t take those pills because of side effects may have another opti…
Mexico's president vowed not to back down in a dispute with the United States over a potential ban on imports of genetically modified corn.
The U.S. Trade Repr…
A mental health crisis among children in Illinois will be fought by streamlining and easing access to necessary treatment and coordination between six separate state agencies, Gov…
The number of people with medical debt on their credit reports fell by 8.2 million — or 17.9% — between 2020 and 2022, according to a report from the U.S. Consumer Financial Prote…
