In the United Nations, Syria has slammed Israel over what they described as the deterioration of health conditions in the Golan Heights. Syria, which is constantly accused of violating its own citizens’ human rights, has now accused Israel of allowing the health conditions of Syrians in the occupied Golan to deteriorate due to suppressive practices carried out through the Israeli occupation. The reported released on Thursday says that Syria had made these allegations against Israel through a report... 

For males, the use of pain-killing drugs referred to as opioids, could do more than just relieve pain, a study says they can also be detrimental to their sex life. The new study indicates that men who had been prescribed erectile dysfunction or low testosterone level medication were more apt to be taking some type of opioid medications, which are narcotic, for back pain that was chronic. The lead author of the story, Dr. Richard Deyo, an investigator for Kaiser Permanente Center in Oregon, said that... 

With summer just a month away, people have started to plan their trips on the weekends or during vacation to the beach. However, regardless if you are sitting on the beach or walking the sidewalks of the neighbourhood you live in, applying sunscreen should be something done on a daily basis. Protecting against the sun is the best way to prevent the development of skin cancer, premature wrinkling of the skin and several other problems. Nevertheless, many times bottles of sunscreen have numerous phrases... 

The magnets embedded in the iPad 2 tablets and their covers could cause interference with the operation of heart implants like pacemakers, says a new small-scale study published on Thursday. Gianna Chien, who is a 16-year old Stockton, California high school student, completed the study with her classmates. She and her colleagues found that the implantable cardioverter defibrillators or ICDs, could have their settings changed or become deactivated by magnetic interference. Chien received help from... 

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a GlaxoSmithKline/Theravance Inc inhaler drug for treating chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or COPD. The inhaler drug, Breo Ellipta, is to be taken just once per day. The FDA gave approval of Breo for those suffering from COPD or smoker’s cough. The disease currently ranks third in the U.S. for cause of death, according to data from the U.S. Center for Disease Control’s National Lung, Heart and Blood Institute. The recent report says close to... 

For just the first time in close to 60 years consumers in the U.S. spent less in 2012 on prescription medication than in the previous year. A recent report says that consumers spent 1% less for medication and that drop was attributed to more generic drugs entering the marketplace when drug patent protection expires. Many times, drug makers lament when medications lose their patent protections. They refer to this as the patent cliff because generic alternatives that are much less expensive enter the... 

The Centers for Disease Control recently announced that a survey showed that over 46% of drivers who are 17 years of age had admitted to sending a text message while they had been driving a motor vehicle. For teenagers 18 and older, that percentage was 52%. Those two figures were alarming for researchers who looked at the survey from 2011, since distracted driving is now one of the leading causes of death amongst teenagers across the U.S. Dr. Andrew Adesman, one of the authors of the study, said... 

U.S. prosecutors have alleged that Novartis, the huge drug maker based in Switzerland, of giving physicians lavish dinners and trips for fishing and other excursions so the doctors would prescribe medications for medications produced by pharmaceutical giant. The Swiss pharmaceutical giant said the monies were used to pay physicians to speak at different educational programs in the U.S. However, prosecutors said that many of those programs or meetings were held in restaurants such as Hooters. Authorities... 

More and more Americans became ill from food borne pathogens during 2012, suffering from the ill effects of bacteria that is often found in seafood located in warm coastal areas and uncooked poultry, said the Center for Disease Control in a report last week. Amongst the food-borne illnesses that are tracked in 10 monitoring sites in the U.S., the incidence rate for illness that is attributed to Campylobacter bacterium, which most often originates from undercooked or raw poultry and sometimes from... 

An obscure federally mandated drug discount program creates a windfall worth millions of dollars a year for private practices and hospitals that participate in the program. The program is now under siege, the subject of a battle between the pharmaceutical industry, which claims the discounts are excessive and unnecessary, and the hospitals, which claim services may have to be cut without them. The program requires the majority of drug companies to give substantial discounts to hospitals and clinics...