(Reuters Health) – – Online socializing may weaken the tie between pain and depression for older people, a U.S. study suggests. People in chronic pain are at risk of depression to start with. When pain makes them stay home more, interacting with friends and family less, it only adds to […]
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This is a Kaiser Health News story. For years, most pharmacists couldn’t give customers even a clue about an easy way to save money on prescription drugs. But the restraints are coming off. When the cash price for a prescription is less than what you would pay using your insurance […]
This story is from Kaiser Health News. The Trump administration wants Medicare for the first time to embrace telemedicine across the country by paying doctors $14 for a five-minute “check-in” phone call with their patients. But many physicians say the proposed reimbursement will cover a service they already do for […]
Transcript for ‘The View’ has a candid conversation about mental health Lady gaga just penned an emotional op-ed urgings everyone to speak out about the second leading cause of death amongst young people. It is suicide. There’s not enough support available for people at risk and we need to be […]
(Reuters) – An advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday voted unanimously in favor of Celltrion Pharm Inc’s copycat drug of Roche Holding AG’s blood cancer drug Rituxan. FILE PHOTO: A view shows the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland August […]
Mat Beren and his friends used to drive by the vast greenhouses of southern British Columbia and joke about how much weed they could grow there. Years later, it’s no joke. The tomato and pepper plants that once filled some of those greenhouses have been replaced with a new cash […]
Transcript for What to know about rare disease causing partial paralysis in children Moving on to our cover story, it’s about a rare polio-like illness striking children across multiple states. Three new cases of afm in Pennsylvania. Paula Faris with the details. It is certainly disturbing. With these new cases […]
BEIJING (Reuters) – China has lifted the restrictions on an area in Yueqing city in eastern Zhejiang province where the African swine fever outbreak was found in August, the agriculture ministry said on Wednesday. Local authorities removed the curbs on the infected area on Wednesday afternoon, but they must take […]