Portuguese, Swiss and French researchers show, for the first time, that is possible to inhibit, in a living organism, the mutated copies of a gene without affecting any existing normal copies of t

Therapeutic strategies to strengthen antioxidant defences could help to prevent the progression of Huntington's Disease. This is the suggestion from the results of the first ever trial on human sa

Letters are warped, syllables left out about four percent of the German population are dyslexics. Scientists seek to spot responsible genes and try to develop a genetic screening test to support a

Operating department practitioner Lloyd Subner has been struck of the HPC Register for assaulting a colleague while employed by Kings College Hospital NHS Trust. A panel of the HPC Conduc

Cerus Corporation (NASDAQ: CERS) announced results from 10 studies on the INTERCEPT Blood System, presented this week at the AABB annual meeting in Montreal, Canada. Study outcomes highlighted the

With a growing threat of blindness from glaucoma looming, finding a cure or therapies that can avert this threat is simply not an urgent national imperative, reports Allen Poirson, PhD, the new

The Last Half Hour of the Day: An Anthology of Stories and Essays That Have Inspired Physicians -- just released by ACP Press, the book publishing program of the American College of Physicians -

A novel enzyme may play a major role in anencephaly, offering hope for a genetic test or even therapy for the rare fatal birth defect in which the brain fails to develop, according to a study from

A Glasgow care home nurse has been struck off the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) register following a 3 day professional hearing held in Glasgow.Jose-Serge Tulwa, a 64 year old registe

After being an emergency room nurse for 17 years, I became too ill to work, said Jan Stephens, an RN from Anaheim, Calif. It all started out manageable enough. In 1992, I enrolled in a Blue C

Omrix Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (Omrix) (NASDAQ: OMRI), a fully-integrated biopharmaceutical company that develops and markets biosurgical and immunotherapy products, announced today interim resu

Faced with high gasoline prices, rising food costs, a roller-coaster stock market and rising unemployment, most Americans (90 percent) say they're worried about the economy. No big surprise there,

According to a study published on bmj.com,there has been a marked increase in the number of compulsory admissionsto inpatient psychiatric care in the UK

Proactive media activity by the 2008 British Pharmaceutical Conference (BPC) press office team paid dividends as pharmacy practice research into prescribing in nursing homes hit the front pages

Chicken soup, that popular home remedy for the common cold sometimes known as Grandma's Penicillin, may have a new role alongside medication and other medical measures in fighting high blood pre

Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine (BUGSDM) has received a $14.5 million grant-the largest award in the School's history and among the 10 largest at Boston University Medical Camp

Do Internet users scavenge the web like prehistoric hunters and gatherers? Can Darwin help us understand Internet user habits? These are the questions studied by brothers Philippe Stenstrom, PhD s

The American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG), a national nonprofit medical and scientific professional association, announced that it has received a $13.5 million, 5-year contract from the Euni

UNESCO plans to launch a network of HIV-positive teachers in Zimbabwe to help the

Students and football fans were the first to be offered 'Something 4 the Weekend' by the NHS in Portsmouth. Portsmouth City teaching Primary Care Trust is running the sexual health campai

A normal developmental protein that sometimes goes awry has been implicated in breast cancer. This discovery indicates the mechanism by which inappropriate expression of the Notch pathway may cont

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a Humanitarian Device Exemption (HDE) for the first heart pump that provides certain critically ill patients with temporary support for the right sid

Asthma sufferers who regularly take the beta2-agonist formoterol are more likely to suffer non-fatal serious adverse events than those given placebos. A review carried out by Cochrane Researchers

Adults gain substantial health benefits from two and a half hours a week of moderate aerobic physical activity, and children benefit from an hour or more of physical activity a day, according to t

Researchers from the Bradley Hasbro Children's Research Center (BHCRC) presented exciting new research at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Annual International Research Conference on

The Wall Street Journal on Saturday profiled the Maimonides Cancer Center in the Chinatown section of Brooklyn

Musician Annie Lennox on Monday in Dublin, Ireland, at a two-day forum on HIV/AIDS and children worldwide said that governments should meet aid pledges to support developing countries over the lo

While mainstream news coverage is still a primary source of information for the latest in policy debates and the health care marketplace, online blogs have become a significant part of the media

Tomorrow, Oct. 8 at 11 a.m. ET, join kaisernetwork.org's Ask the Experts for a live webcast discussion with David Cutler, health policy

Antagonistic interactions between naturally occurring endangered species pose unique problems for conservation biology. Herein, we report a seven year decline in breeding males of the end