Patients with diabetes, cardiac problems, kidney disorders or high blood pressure could benefit from the development of new hologram technology. The new smart holograms, which can detect changes

The 2008 HSR Impact Award, presented at the AcademyHealth National Health Policy Conference in Washington, D.C., honored two decades or research that ultimately brought risk adjustment to many use

In the world of organ donation, it has been common practice to exclude older patients from receiving transplants because of limited donor supply and lower survival rates.However, patient

'Safety, Security, Connectivity - Electromagnetics in Everyday Life' is a topic that concerns us all - and one that is to be explored on February 14, 2008 at the ETH Zurich Competence Center, sere

More than half a million women around the world, including an estimated 50,000 in the United States, use natural family planning methods developed by Georgetown University Medical Center's Institu

Deborah E. Wiley, Chairman of The Wiley Foundation, and Senior Vice President, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., have announced that the seventh annual Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences will be awarded to

Following the recent publication of an article on antiretroviral treatment and sexual transmission of HIV in the Swiss medical journal 'Bulletin des médecins suisses', UNAIDS and WHO rei

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a Public Health Advisory to alert health care providers, patients, and caregivers to new safety warnings concerning Chantix (varenicline), a pres

The MS Society has welcomed a report by the Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI), which criticises the criteria local authorities use to assess the provision of social care. The S

Women who smoke and have a specific genetic makeup are at significant risk for the development of breast cancer, according to a recent study published by the journal

The challenges of delivering drugs to the central nervous system are well-documented. But, drug developers and researchers have discovered that delivering CNS therapeutic drugs via inhalation miti

The ability to deliver drugs to specific cells has long been regarded as the next major milestone in drug therapeutics. Targeting drugs to the cellular level is expected to minimize drug side effe

A new study published in the February 2008 issue of Pediatrics finds that many children hospitalized for influenza have had a recent, previous hospitalization that would have provided an ea

Patients with insomnia who are diagnosed with accompanying mental health ailments often are not prescribed medication that will help them sleep - which could then make related anxiety or depressio

University of Queensland researchers are developing a new targeted approach to help combat one of Australia's biggest me

The study was published online February 5 in the February 2008 edition (Volume 6, Issue 2) of the journal PLoS Biology.The research team found that the hypertension drugs diltiaze

Winter means cold and flu season. But should you really feed a cold and starve a fever? And even though chicken soup was your grandmother¹s favorite remedy, will it really cure what ails

Following a review of the Administration's FY 2009 budget, the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare's President and CEO Barbara B. Kennelly stated: While

Steve Giroux, an independent pharmacy owner from Middleport, N.Y., and president of the National Community Pharmacists Association, issued the following statement on the White House campaign to p

Even though federal welfare-reform legislation calls for case workers to screen for domestic violence and most states have agreed to implement this requirement, just 9 percent of women applying f

There's new hope for breast cancer research, and it's coming from a very unlikely place. Researchers at the Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences recently publi

Doctors at New York University Medical Center's Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery are seeking candidates to participate in Phase II clinical trials of a new cutting-edge personalized brain

We must all play a part in conserving antibiotics to help tackle infections The Government will today launch a national campaign to remind doctors of the problem of antibiotic r

Some forms of a gene that controls the body's response to stress hormones appear to protect adults who were abused in childhood from depression, psychiatrists have found.People who had b

An antiretroviral drug already in widespread use in the developing world to prevent the transmission of HIV from infected mothers to their newborns during childbirth has also been found to substan

New research suggests that two recently discovered genes are critically important for controlling cell survival during embryonic development.The genes, called E2F7 and E2F8, are the leas

Generic Pharmaceutical Association (GPhA) President and CEO Kathleen Jaeger released the following statement on the Bush Administration's Fiscal 2009 Food and Drug Administration (FDA) budge

1. No Clear Winner in Comparative Review of Effectiveness and Harms of Treatments for Localized Prostate CancerAbout 197,000 men will be diagnosed with clinically localized prosta

In the first study to directly compare a contraceptive vaginal ring and skin patch, more women indicated overall satisfaction with the vaginal ring, researchers report in the current issue of O

New research shows that cigarette smokers are four times as likely as nonsmokers to report feeling unrested after a night's sleep. The study, appearing in the February issue of CHEST, the p