A MUM from York says the NHS is playing with her life after officials said it was not “cost effective” to give her the drugs that would keep her alive.

( Wiley ) A new study, funded in part by the National Institutes of Health and Health Resources and Services Administration, and published in the Jan. 2013 issue of Liver Transplantation, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Dis…

A DRUG dealer who faced prison for his third offence in two years has walked free – so he can save his brother’s life.

Start-ups like Abiogenix are developing smart pill boxes that remind patients to take pills and knows when they have missed them. They alert the patient with an email or text message, nudging them to take the missed medication. Then there are later sta…

A woman who ate death cap mushrooms she picked near UC Santa Cruz is being treated at Dominican Hospital in the first U.S. clinical trial of European antidote Legalon SIL for deadly amatoxin poisoning. She is the third patient in the trial treated in S…

TWO consultants have given their backing to a petition calling for a revolutionary cystic fibrosis (CF) drug to be urgently made available in Scotland.

( St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital ) A national drug shortage has been linked to a higher rate of relapse among children, teenagers and young adults with Hodgkin lymphoma enrolled in a national clinical trial, according to research led by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

‘Catchlight’ is a term of the photographer’s art: “It’s the twinkle you see in a subject’s eye,” says Genevieve Ruth. A portrait photographer by trade, and a Snoqualmie wife and mother, Ruth had to find the light in her own life when things turned dark for her family three years ago At the time, her husband, Nate Gunderson, was in dire need of a heart transplant, after battling for his life …

BALTIMORE, Dec. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ —  Gliknik Inc., a privately held biopharmaceuticals company, today announced that researchers from University of Pennsylvania and University of Maryland presented …

SynCardia’s Total Artificial Heart was originally used as a permanent replacement heart, but is presently approved as a bridge to transplant for people dying from end-stage biventricular heart failure.