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The FINANCIAL -- People are more likely to have a lower weight if they regularly engage in high impact walking compared to doing another vigorous activity like going to the gym, according to  new LSE research. The results are particularly pronounced in

The FINANCIAL -- Novo Nordisk on November 3 announced that a research collaboration has been initiated with Dr Michael Schwartz, director of The Diabetes and Obesity Center of Excellence at UW Medicine.

The FINANCIAL -- A successful treatment for an inherited cause of blindness could become the first gene therapy to receive approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

The FINANCIAL -- Two new studies from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health shed light on critical dietary issues facing Americans. One study showed that while recent improvements in the U.S. diet have helped reduce disease and premature death, the overall

The FINANCIAL -- New evidence released on November 2 shows that public health policies targeted at smokers may actually have the opposite effect for some people trying to quit.

The FINANCIAL -- The fight against tuberculosis is paying off, with this year’s death rate nearly half of what it was in 1990. Nevertheless, 1.5 million people died from TB in 2014. Most of these deaths could have been prevented, according to

The FINANCIAL -- More than 3.7 billion people under the age of 50 – or 67% of the population – are infected with herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), according to WHO’s first global estimates of HSV-1 infection published today in the

The FINANCIAL -- Professor Tom Solomon, from the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Infection and Global Health, has presented evidence to the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee on the UK response to Ebola.

The FINANCIAL -- Even the youngest baby boomers are now at risk for age-related eye disease and low vision. But doctors of optometry have a message they can share with this demographic of patients, and others: Technological advances continue to help visually

The FINANCIAL -- The cost of providing medical care to staff continues to vastly outpace inflation in 29 major economies, according to new research by Mercer Marsh Benefits, a global network across global consultancies Mercer and Marsh. The research Medical Trends Around