SWINE flu virus mutations are spreading in Europe, French health officials say as the World Health Organisation reported a leap in deaths from the disease by more than 1,000 in a week.

A FURTHER two people have died after contracting swine flu in Wales, officials confirmed today.

Swine flu vaccine safe; new hope for cancer vaccine Nov. 25: U.S. health officials said Wednesday there's no evidence that the swine flu vaccine is causing any serious side effects.

Evidence of cardiovascular risks associated with taking Vioxx, the popular, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug , could have been identified nearly four years before its manufacturer, Merck & Co.

Rituxan, a drug used to treat cancer and rheumatoid arthritis, may help slow the development of newly discovered type 1 or juvenile diabetes, researchers reported on Wednesday.

Tulane University School of Medicine surgeon Dr. Emad Kandil is one of the first in the country to perform a new form of endoscopic surgery that uses a small incision under the arm to remove all or a portion of the thyroid or parathyroid glands without leaving a scar on the neck.

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Many people who are overweight or obese develop insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes at some stage in their lives.

The World Health Organization is looking into reports in Britain of the likely spread of a drug-resistant strain of swine flu, the UN agency said on Tuesday.

British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline PLC said Monday it is temporarily withdrawing its application for U.S. approval of a drug to prevent prostate cancer.

Patients with an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest who received intravenous drug administration during treatment, recommended in life support guidelines, had higher rates of short term survival but no statistically significant improvement in survival to hospital discharge or long-term survival, compared to patients who did not receive IV drug ...

BY DANIEL GILBERT Media General News Service A Tazewell, Va., dentist pleaded guilty Tuesday to writing bogus prescriptions for hydrocodone to feed his own addiction for more than a decade.

Merck & Co. is disputing it knew Vioxx significantly increased the risk of heart attacks at least three years before it was pulled off the market.

A cup of Brazilian mint tea has pain relieving qualities to match those of commercially available analgesics, a study suggests.

An autopsy shows a North Carolina man just discharged from a state psychiatric hospital died from a massive overdose of a painkiller given to him by the facility.

A team of scientists led by the Scripps Research Institute says it has discovered a direct link between insulin and core body temperature.

Direct-to-consumer advertising for a commonly prescribed antiplatelet drug does not appear associated with increased use, but may be associated with increased drug costs and Medicaid pharmacy expenditures, according to a report in the November 23 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

For most of his life, Barrie Morrisey only thought of shingles as part of the roof that covered his head.

Smokers have tried a long list of ways to quit: cold turkey, counseling, gum, patches and more.

A STRAIN of swine flu resistant to Tamiflu has spread from person to person in a South Wales hospital.