PESHAWAR: Studies has revealed that 58.5 percent of medical prescriptions by doctors in Peshawar are illegible, difficult to read, and full of errors.
A research...
LONDON: Compared to inactive people, recreational soccer players have lower cholesterol, blood pressure and resting heart rates as well as less fat mass, a...
NEW YORK: There’s little evidence that medications improve mild cognitive decline associated with aging, according to a new review of research, but doctors can...
A unique approach to targeting the abnormal T-cells that cause T-cell lymphomas could offer hope to patients with the aggressive and difficult-to-treat family of...
Biomedical engineers from the University of Sydney and the United States collaborated to develop a highly elastic and adhesive surgical glue that quickly seals...
Dubai recently inaugurated a smart pharmacy with a robot for dispensing and prescribing medicines in Dubai Hospital.
This is the first-of-its-kind smart pharmacy in the...
AMSTERDAM: Dutch scientists have developed an artificial leaf that can act as a mini-factory for producing drugs, an advance that could allow medicines to...
PARIS: Scientists unveiled findings Monday that could lead to a single treatment for a trio of deadly maladies found mostly in the world's poorest countries.
LONDON: GlaxoSmithKline and Google parent Alphabet's life sciences unit are creating a new company focused on fighting diseases by targeting electrical signals in the body, jump-starting a novel field of medicine called bioelectronics.
MEXICO CITY: Fed up with drug-related violence, a growing number of Mexican politicians see one potential cure: legalizing the cultivation of opium poppies for the production of medicine.
The Ankara Chief Prosecutor has launched an investigation into the Turkish unit of Swiss drugmaker Novartis, local media reported on Friday, after allegations it benefited from bribery.
THAR: At least eight children have lost their lives due to outbreak of gastroenteritis and malnutrition in different areas of drought-stricken district Thar, ARY News reported.
NEW YORK: Reviled US pharmaceutical and hedge fund figure Martin Shkreli resigned as chief executive of Turing Pharmaceuticals on Friday, a day after his arrest on fraud charges, the company said Friday.
NEW YORK: Martin Shkreli, the boyish pharmaceutical entrepreneur who caused a public uproar after he drastically raised the price of a life-saving prescription drug, was arrested for engaging in what U.S. prosecutors said was a Ponzi-like scheme at his former hedge fund and a pharmaceutical company he previously headed.
KARACHI: World Wildlife Fund (WWF) trained fishermen released a five five feet long spinetail mobula ray which became entangled in their tuna gillnet laid down near Balochistan's city of Pasni, ARY News reports.
STOCKHOLM: Anglo-American John O'Keefe and Norwegian couple May-Britt and Edvard Moser won the 2014 Nobel Prize for medicine on Monday for discovering the brain's internal positioning system, helping humans find their way and giving clues to how strokes and Alzheimer's affect the brain.