The Department of Health recently approved a new targeted drug to treat patients suffering from late stage ALK-positive or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Bringing a new medicine to market in Africa requires 54 separate applications to each country on the continent, a time-intensive process that could be costing lives. African leaders are now trying to move toward a regional and eventually continent-wide approach to speed the process.

High doses of some commonly used pain drugs like ibuprofen can increase heart attacks, strokes and related deaths by about a third, a study warned on Thursday.

The devastating effect of Alzheimer's disease on bilingual people has been thrown into focus in Canada, where the sudden loss of a second language can leave sufferers feeling like strangers in their own country.

Pfizer Inc., in a first for the drug industry, told The Associated Press that the drugmaker will begin selling its popular erectile dysfunction pill Viagra directly to patients on its website.

The Hope Foundation for Cancer Care (HOPE) on Friday invited Cary Adams, chief executive officer of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), to Taiwan to help alter people's common misbeliefs about cancer.

The Taiwan Organ Registry and Sharing Center (ORSC) recently called for a review system for hospitals that conduct organ transplants, adding that the Department of Health (DOH) should disqualify those with insufficient experience in the field.

A wild strain of the H7N9 avian flu virus provided by China arrived in Taiwan yesterday morning, the Department of Health's Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said.

Dr. Hilary Koprowski, the Polish-born researcher who developed the first successful oral vaccination for polio, died this week at his Philadelphia home. He was 96.

Daniel M. Tsai, chairman of Taiwan's Fubon Financial Holding Co. Ltd., will donate US$1.5 million to the University of Southern California (USC) to establish a medical research center there.