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Artificial heart manufacturers Abiomed and SynCardia Systems on Monday announced that
The Bush administration on Wednesday filed arguments in a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of San Francisco stating that veterans have no legal right to specific types of medical care, the
The following highlights local actions on women's health. Howard County, Md.: Some health experts recently criticized a new county
President Bush's fiscal year 2009 budget proposal would cut an estimated $3.3 billion in federal funding over five years for family planning services under Medicaid, BNA reports. Un
A predisposition for obesity might be wired into the brain from the start, suggests a new study of rats in the February issue of Cell Metabolism, a publication of Cell Press.Rats
FEI Company (Nasdaq:FEIC) has introduced a revolutionary, high-throughput, cryo transmission electron microscope (TEM) that combines high- throughput sample handling with state-of- the-art electro
Abiomed Inc. (NASDAQ: ABMD) recently received a proposed National Coverage Decision (NCD) from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for its AbioCor® Total Replacement Heart.
Mary Hannaman MD, president of NeuroDigm Co. in Fort Worth, Texas has confirmed that a recombinant human erythropoietin, epoetin alfa, can reverse neural changes that cause chronic pain behavior.
William F. Balistreri, MD, Editor of The Journal of Pediatrics, has been honored with the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) 2007 Distinguished Service Award, reco
OneOncology Inc., a company that is uniting the oncology community, announced that Therapeutics and Research in Oncology (TRIO) and its 50 plus member-practices in Maryland, Virginia and Washingto
Heavy marijuana use has been found to contribute to gum disease, apart from the known effects that tobacco smoke was already known to have.In a group of more than 900 New Zealanders, smo
The Massachusetts Academy of Dermatology has chosen to use Web widgets from VisualDxHealth to provide more value to its W
The blanket of ice that covered Oklahoma and nearby states last December prompted RehabCare Group, Inc. (NYSE:RHB) to reactivate its Emergency Relief Fund to aid employees who were adversely impac
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an advisory to warn seafood processors yesterday, 5th February, about recent illnesses in humans resulting from eating fish poisoned by ciguatera
A new Web site just launched by Roska Healthcare Advertising offers visitors a novel approach to information gathering
1. Regulation of Intracellular Chloride Concentration and GABAA SignalingAudrey C. Brumback and Kevin J. StaleyActivating GABAA receptors opens an intrinsic chloride chan
Office of AIDS Programs and Policy: What: A Rally/Human Billboard will take place for National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day on February 7. The goal of th
On Thursday February 7 the US Congress will take the first step in determining US policy on global HIV/AIDS for the next five years. The US has committed to the international goal of univ
In most industrialized countries, chronic low back pain is recognized as a widespread condition. However, a Special Report supported through a grant from Axiom Worldwide is now featured in
Just four years since the National Healthcare Corporation (NHC) nursing home fires killed 16 residents in Nashville - and in a year when nursing home violations and admission suspensions are at an
Reports are coming in of UK scientists successfully creating human embryos using the DNA from three people. Doug Turnbull, professor of Neurology at Newcastle University, and his team used the
Among elderly people, lower levels of folate can be associated with athree-fold increase in risk for dementia, claims a study published inthe Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiat
Could a simple vitamin A and zinc supplement help protect young children from malaria? A randomized double blind trial reported in the open access publication, Nutrition Journal, would suggest the
According to a recent study published by bmj.com,the first universal parenting program designed to prevent early childbehavior problems has little impac
Did you know that 80 percent of burn injuries occur in and around the home? The team at the UCSD Regional Burn Center treats thousands of children every year, often for burns that could be avoided
The previously supposed link between autism the MMR jab, a vaccinationagainst measles, mumps, and rubella, has been discredited, according toa study published in the Archives of Disease in C
TorreyPines Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: TPTX) announced that data from its multiple dose clinical trial of tezampanel, an antagonist of the AMPA and kainate subgroup of glutamate receptors, sho
The debate over whether or not we are actually too obese continues in arecent article published in BMJ. ResearchersPatrick Basham and John Luik maintain that current scientific
High cholesterol levels are not just found in adults. Children may have high cholesterol, too, even without being overweight. Over years, cholesterol overload has similar hazards as in adults -
New polymer material designed to stop bone bleeding in surgery reduces the risk of surgical infection, according to a new animal study to be published in the February 2008 issue of Clinical Ort