By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) - Is nanomedicine the next big thing? A growing number of top drug companies seem to think so. The ability to encapsulate potent drugs in tiny particles measuring billionths of a meter in diameter is opening up new o... [Full Article]
British researcher John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka of Japan won this year's Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discovering that mature, specialized cells of the body can be reprogrammed into stem cells - a discovery that scientists hope to tu... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - Arab doctors hold boxes of medicine that they intend to deliver to the Syrian people during a sit-in to show their support for the Syrian anti-government protesters, at Jaber on the Jordanian side of the border with Syria, northeast of Am... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - Guido Rasi, executive director the European Medicines Agency (EMA) poses for a portrait at his office in London January 6, 2012. The new head of Europe's drugs watchdog said on Friday there was an acute need to tighten regulations on ... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - Bruce A. Beutler of the U.S., 2011 Nobel medicine prize laureate, holds his Nobel lecture at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm December 7, 2011. Beutler works for The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, U.S., and Univers... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - A nurse prepares medicine at the HIV/AIDS ward of Beijing YouAn Hospital December 1, 2011. The number of new HIV/AIDS cases in China is soaring, state media said on Wednesday, citing health officials, with rates of infections among colleg... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - Eloy Pacheco, a tuberculosis patient, ingests a medicine from a free treatment at a medical post in the outskirts of Lima November 10, 2011. Peru is the third American country with the highest incidence of tuberculosis after Haiti and Bol... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - Faculty of medicine first year students run while their seniors spray them with different types of sauces, liquids and flour as part of an annual tradition during a celebration in honour of their patron Saint Lucas at Granada University i... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - Faculty of medicine first year students are seen after seniors sprayed them with different types of sauces, liquids and flour as part of an annual tradition during a celebration in honour of their patron Saint Lucas at Granada University ... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - Nobel Medicine laureate, Luxembourg-born Jules Hoffmann, talks to a reporter at a hotel in Shanghai October 3, 2011, after receiving news of winning the Nobel prize. Three scientists who uncovered key secrets of how the body's immune ... [Full Article]
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