Health

A former Dutch justice minister was appointed Wednesday to lead an investigation into the illegal use of a pesticide on laying hens, which sparked a food scare in Europe and beyond and led to the dest…

The decision to remove high-volume providers such as Planned Parenthood from the state’s women’s health network has led to a 41 percent decline in the number of women accessing contraception in Texas …

MONDAY, Aug. 21, 2017 — Caffeine may help patients wake up more quickly after general anesthesia, an animal study suggests. Adult rats were given a 3 percent concentration of a general anestheti…

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Hikma Pharmaceuticals Plc’s U.S. subsidiary has raised the price of a common diarrhea drug by more than 400 percent and is charging more for five other medicines as we…

Noted physicist Stephen Hawking has criticized Britain’s health secretary for what he described as the selective use of scientific studies to support changes in the National Health Service. The …

Without a congressional appropriation, the Trump administration could still stop the payments any month. | Carolyn Kaster/AP By PAUL DEMKO 08/16/2017 04:10 PM EDT Updated 08/16/2017 05:07 PM EDT 2017-…

Aug. 17 (UPI) — A new study has identified a specific protein known as COUP-TFII that determines whether a mouse embryo develops a male reproductive system. Researchers from the National Institu…

FREETOWN, Aug 16 (Reuters) – Facing the threat of disease, Sierra Leone on Wednesday began burying hundreds of victims of a mudslide that swept away homes on the edge of the capital, one of Afri…