A new study examining the placebo effect shows patients will feel better if they believe they are taking painkillers, even if their doses contain no medication

A study says Tuesday that heroin users cannot avoid the painful withdrawal of breaking their habit by going under anesthesia because doing so can be dangerous.

Publicized as a quick way to withdraw from heroin addiction, the $15,000 treatment involves making the user unconscious and rapidly administering an antagonist drug that neutralizes heroin's effects, Reuters reports

A new study examining the placebo effect shows that patients will feel better if they believe they are taking painkillers, even if their doses contain no medication.

The University of Michigan study shows that the brain releases chemicals that relieve pain in patients who believe they're being treated

Three people are infected with a pig-borne disease in the southern region of China and one has died, a day after an epidemic in another part of the country was declared under control.

The Xinhua News Agency reports that those infected reside in four different areas in Guangdong province

Simple observations in places like public bars or restaurants can suggest that women in general feel the effects of alcohol faster than men. But while most people argue that it is all about the difference of sizes between the two sexes, studies suggest it has more to do with body composition.

According to a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine, it found that in women levels of gastric alcohol dehydrogenase, a compound that breaks down alcohol, are on average nearly half what they are in men. It also found that the amount of alcohol metabolized after its first passage through a woman's liver and stomach is 23 percent of what it is in men