Eli Lilly and Co.'s Cymbalta depression treatment significantly reduced back pain in comparison with a placebo, new studies suggest. The drug is prescribed to treat depression, generalized anxiety disorder, diabetic nerve pain, and fibromyalgia.

The pharmaceutical company carried out a study on 236 adults with chronic low back pain who weren't depressed. They took Cymbalta or a placebo drug daily for 13 weeks. The study found that 31 per cent of patients receiving the treatment experienced a 50 percent reduction in pain, compared with 19 percent of individuals who were in the placebo group

One person has died and dozens here are sick after being infected with what appears to be E. coli. At least 10 people were taken to a Tulsa hospital after eating at a restaurant.

Oklahoma State Health Department spokeswoman Leslea Bennett-Webb announced that 12 to 20 other people in Beggs, Pryor and Bixby were treated at various other hospitals. The Oklahoma Health Department says up to two dozen people have been treated and released at other hospitals in northeastern Oklahoma

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency and the Public Health Agency of Canada announced Saturday that it has traced the deadly listeriosis outbreak in Ontario to a Maple Leaf food processing plant in Toronto.

The announcement by health officials prompted the food company to heighten its recall of meat products. Maple Leaf also issued a public apology for the outbreak

Researchers think they have found a way to stop the bacteria that cause gastroenteritis, tularemia and severe diarrhea from making people sick.

"What we have here is a completely novel approach to combating illness," Dr. Vanessa Sperandio, associate professor of microbiology and biochemistry at the University of Texas Southwestern and senior author of a study, said in a statement released Thursday

Child survival in Asia and the Pacific has improved considerably deepening economic disparities have meant that the region's poor are often unable to get proper health care, the United Nations said.

The region's robust economic growth, the fastest in the world since 1990, has lifted millions out of poverty and led to numerous improvements, including in child and maternal health, according to a new report by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)