Health

News Hour: Bangladesh CML Supporting Group (BCSG) celebrated the World CML Day on September 22, 2016 with physicians in a bid to address the courage and hope required to live with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). The...

News Hour: Zykadia may cause stomach upset and intestinal problems in most patients, including diarrhea, nausea, vomiting and stomach-area pain. Novartis announced top-line results from its Phase III ASCEND-4 clinical study for Zykadia® (ceritinib) in patients...

News Hour: Novartis published proof of concept study results in the New England Journal of Medicine showing that its new antimalarial compound, KAF156, demonstrated activity against both vivax and falciparum malaria, including artemisinin-resistant parasites. Malaria is...

News Hour: The European Resuscitation Council, the European Board of Anaesthesiology and the European Society of Anaesthesiology have  issued a joint statement calling upon European hospitals all to use the same internal telephone number (2222) to...

News Hour: Some changes could achieve significant reductions in non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes as well as increasing physical activity and reducing pollution. Importantly, in cities with high levels of private car use...

News Hour: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has become one of the biggest threats to global health and endangers other major priorities, such as human development. All around the world, many common infections are becoming resistant to the...

News Hour: World leaders  signaled an unprecedented level of attention to curb the spread of infections that are resistant to antimicrobial medicines. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) happens when bacteria, viruses, parasites, and fungi develop resistance against medicines...

News Hour: Six candidates have been proposed by Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO) for the position of WHO Director-General. Member States proposed the following candidates: The Government of Ethiopia has submitted the nomination...

News Hour: McKesson Pharmacy Systems is pleased to announce the release of Pharmaserv version 7.5 for general availability. The centerpiece of this new release is the integration of the Clinical Programs Solution (CPS) – McKesson’s proprietary...

News Hour: The number of cases of childhood diarrhoea attributable to pathogens (bacteria, parasites, viruses or other infections) have been substantially underestimated and may be nearly twice as high as previous analysis suggests, according to new...