Your gym is not exactly a health haven, not with all those germs on the dumbbells, stationary bikes and treadmills. A new study by FitRated.com will make you plop some disinfectant wipes into your workout bag. It offered this gut-wrenching statistic: Free weights are…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A lawmaker wants to allow California addicts to use heroin, crack and other drugs at supervised facilities to cut down on overdoses, joining several U.S. cities considering establishing the nation’s first legal drug-injection sites. The proposal introduced Tuesday comes as San…
A Belfast woman who bought drugs online to terminate her pregnancy – as she had no access to a legal abortion – has been given a suspended sentence. Why are abortions not allowed in Northern Ireland when they are in the rest of the…
Can you stop a paedophile before they’ve abused a child? That’s the aim of a unique clinical trial in Sweden that aims to intervene in the lives of potential abusers. And it’s a trial that raises ethical and legal questions about whether societies can…
A common drug could hold the key to long life, in flies at least, according to research. At low doses, lithium prolonged the life of fruit flies in lab experiments. Scientists say the finding is “encouraging” and could eventually lead to new drugs to…
Uganda’s only radiotherapy machine used for treating cancer is broken beyond repair, the country’s main cancer unit says. This leaves thousands unable to get potentially life-saving treatment. The cancer unit at Mulago Hospital in the capital, Kampala, is now looking for $1.8m (£1.3m) to…
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will move $510 million in unspent money dedicated to battling last year’s global public health crisis — theEbola virus — toward this year’s global public health crisis: the Zika virus. But the White House also made clear that the United States…
Diabetes rates nearly doubled in the past three decades, largely due to increases in obesity and sugary diets, according to a report released Wednesday by the World Health Organization. The percentage of adults living with diabetes worldwide grew from 4.7% in 1980 to 8.5% in 2014. Overall,…
Hospitals’ use of digital medication orders have dramatically reduced the number of dangerous drug errors, but their computer systems still fail to flag 13% of potentially fatal mistakes, a report released Thursday shows. Medication errors are by far the most common mistakes made in hospitals — and hospital…
Seeing is believing. A new migraine simulator lets people who have never endured one of the debilitating headaches get inside a sufferer’s head. Excedrin unveiled “The Migraine Experience” on Wednesday, the world’s first augmented reality migraine simulator, which bombards the wearer with the blinking…