Health news
05
Sep
Two Vaccines to Protect Against Ebola Could Be Available Within Weeks
Two potential vaccines against the deadly Ebola virus ravaging West Africa could be available as soon as November and would first be gi...
04
Sep
F.D.A. Allows First Use of a Novel Cancer Drug
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved the first of an eagerly awaited new class of cancer drugs that unleashes the body...
04
Sep
Are EHRs Life Savers? Maybe So, According to Preliminary Research
Can the adoption and implementation of electronic health records (EHRs) be tied to hospital performance and lowered mortality rates? Wh...
03
Sep
CVS Stores Stop Selling All Tobacco Products
At a CVS store near Times Square, the shelves are notable for what they no longer display: cigarettes. Now the only smoking products to...
30
Aug
New Novartis Drug Shows Striking Efficacy in Treating Heart Failure
By ANDREW POLLACK AUG. 30, 2014
An experimental drug has shown a striking efficacy in prolonging the lives of people with heart failure...
29
Aug
What Doctors Can’t Do
Mary White makes house calls. She’s a senior community health worker in Philadelphia in the IMPaCT program at the Penn Center for Commu...