Asthma Medicine Halves Risk Of Parkinson

Using data gathered from 100 million Norwegian prescriptions, researchers have found that asthma medicine can halve a patients risk of developing Parkinson disease.

New Meningitis Test To Speed Up Diagnosis And Save Lives

A hospital A&E department in Northern Ireland is to start using a new, rapid test for meningitis that should speed up diagnosis and save lives.

US Clears First 'living Drug' For Tough Childhood Leukemia

The Food and Drug Administration approved the first treatment that genetically engineers patients blood cells into an army of assassins to seek and destroy leukemia.

Anti-inflammatory Drugs May Lower Heart Attack Risk, Study Finds

US scientists find heart attack survivors given canakinumab injections have fewer future heart attacks and lower cancer risk.

Metformin Could Be The First FDA Approved Antiaging Drug

Most surprising of all, Metformin-takers seemed to get cancer far less frequently.