India’s top drug controller has banned an anti-cold drug combination for use in children below the age of four. The ban comes after a spate of child deaths in The Gambia and Uzbekistan were linked to Indian-made cough syrups last year. In India, at least 12 children died between 2019 […]
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Shutterstock / Kateryna Kon Artificial intelligence has helped discover a new class of antibiotics that can treat infections caused by drug-resistant bacteria. This could help in the battle against antibiotic resistance, which was responsible for killing more than 1.2 million people in 2019 – a number […]
Image Credit: Shutterstock Matthew Perry‘s friends had suspected he died of a drug overdose before the official cause of death was revealed, according to a new report. The actor, who had been open about his addiction struggles for years, unexpectedly died at the age of 54 on October 28 and […]
Fezolinetant could be transformative in tackling symptoms of menopause By Victoria Allen Published: 01:02 GMT, 18 December 2023 | Updated: 02:09 GMT, 18 December 2023 A ‘blockbuster’ drug which acts directly on the brain to prevent hot flushes has been approved for use in the UK. Fezolinetant could be transformative […]
A new report has laid bare which states have the highest levels of drug and alcohol addiction. Colorado scored the highest in terms of addiction as a whole, with a fifth of its people ‘excessive’ drinkers and 21 percent using illicit drugs. The Mile High state – which has some of […]
Some 600,000 people in Britain suffer from epilepsy, suffering regular seizures The new jab can help children with a specific drug resistant form of epilepsy By Ethan Ennals Published: 22:00 GMT, 16 December 2023 | Updated: 02:05 GMT, 17 December 2023 Scientists have developed a gene therapy to cure a […]
The drug epidemic plaguing America is showing no signs of slowing down, as new data reveals deadly overdoses continued to rise over the past year. A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report showed there was a 2.3 percent rise in deaths from overdoses in the 12-month period from July 2022 to […]
Illegal and legal drug use among American schoolchildren has fallen to a record low, according to an official report. Officials from the National Institute on Drug Abuse surveyed a nationally-representative sample of 22,000 students in nearly every state this year. They found a third of 12th graders have used illicit […]