The Philippine Department of Health (DOH) on Wednesday disclosed the direct link between smoking and blindness.

Health Secretary Francisco T. Duque III said that smokers are at least twice as likely to lose their sight in later life, if they do not quit smoking

According to a new report from the Better Sleep Council (BSC), employees are paying a high price for too little sleep when it comes to work productivity.

Survey respondents in a 2007 study admitted to an alarming decline in quality of work, poor judgment and trouble retaining information as the top work-related consequences from lack of sleep. Of those studied, 44 percent said they were likely to be in an unpleasant or unfriendly mood -- all bad news for employers, employees and customers

A recent report by the inspector general's office of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says that three states, namely California, Illinois and Michigan lack in Medicare hospice and need more frequent surveys.

Alleging that the hospice programs were ignored by state inspectors for nine years and were long overdue for certification, the report said that 46 percent of the hospices were cited for at least one health deficiency, such as missing or inadequate patient-care plans

A new biologic drug, Ceprotin (Baxter Healthcare Corp, Deerfield, IL) was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday for the treatment of a rare blood clotting disorder.

Ceprotin was shown to be "effective" for 94 percent of the participants in a trial study. Only six percent of the patients studied had complications due to dosage adjustment needs, yet these patients still experienced effective results

People who suffer from sleep apnea - a disorder characterized by pauses in breathing during sleep, are at a greater risk for gradual and silent brain damage, according to a Japanese study.

The condition results in fragmented and obstructive sleep called apneas (literally, "without breath"), each lasting long enough so that one or more breaths are missed, and occur repeatedly throughout sleep