Family describes children’s cross-border heart surgery experience – BBC News

It’s daggers out at the Federal Trade Commission in its fight against anticompetitive practices in health care. This past year, it has issued more stringent guidelines to block and discourage hospital mergers, and it investigated practices by middlemen in the drug supply chain. Now drug manufacturers themselves are in the agency’s crosshairs. In November, the FTC challenged the validity of more […]

People in some parts of the world have used herbal remedies to treat diseases for centuries. But in the United States, we tend to rely heavily on traditional Western medicine. Still, the use of dietary supplements has taken off in the last few decades. A 2011 survey from the CDC found that more than half […]

Locals ‘living in fear’ following escalation of violence in Cork City  Irish Examiner Man arrested after Cork City pub doused in petrol overnight  Irish Examiner Man arrested in connection with incident at business premises in Ballyvolane  EchoLive.ie Hand grenade thrown at house and pub doused with petrol in separate incidents in Cork  Irish Independent Controlled explosion after grenade found […]