Two newspapers on Tuesday reported on scrutiny of statin use and whether the drugs provide prolonged life or benefits to patients with high cholesterol. Summaries appear below.

Chrysler Group on Monday offered buyout and early retirement packages to about 13,000 hourly workers as part of an effort to reduce the com

The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday examined how some small- and medium-size employers are providing stipends to workers who purchase their own health coverage through defined contrib

Congressional Budget Office Director Peter Orszag on Monday said that CMS demonstration project

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Monday discussed Democratic priorities for 2008 that included several health care initiatives, the

In his final State of the Union address on Monday, President Bush appealed for extending or cementing past initiatives, and he reintroduced ideas that in the past have gained no traction such a

Two newspapers recently reported on developments in SCHIP in Louisiana and Utah. Summaries appear below.Louisiana: State health Secretary Alan Levine in a telep

The Covering Carolina Collaborative last week unveiled a $230 million plan to cover 160,000 of the state's approximately 700,000 uninsured residents, the

The California Senate Health Committee on Monday voted 7-1, with three abstentions, to re

Some scientists are questioning whether a 1998 FDA requirement to fortify flour, bread and pasta with folic acid in an effort to prevent

President Bush in his State of the Union address on Monday called on Congress to ban human cloning and increase funding for ethical stem cell research that does not involve the destruction of

The following highlights recent news of state actions on abortion-related legislation. New Hampshire: Sen. Kathleen Sgambati (D) recently introduced a bill (SB 527

A new study on twins by researchers in the UK showed that people who are physically active in their leisure time aged more slowly than their more sedentary counterparts.The study is pub

Can breast milk protect against asthma? Breastfeeding could help babies avoid asthma caused by allergies in later life, reported The Daily Telegraph. When the mother is exposed t

Myriad Genetics, Inc. (NASDAQ: MYGN) has completed a Phase 1 human clinical trial of MPC-0920, an orally available, direct thrombin inhibitor. The trial studied healthy volunteers in a single, es

With less than 200 days left before the smoke-free Beijing Olympics open. A Beijing official recently announced that the provisions to ban smoking in public places in Beijing will go into effe

Nearly 165,000 smokers managed to kick the habit in the summer of 2007 with the help of NHS Stop Smoking Services, a report by The Information Centre for health and social care (The IC) revealed y

EaglePicher Technologies, LLC, an EaglePicher company, announced its Medical Power group introduced two new implantable medical batteries to the market. The two batteries, aimed at the rapidly gro

Statistics show unprecedented demand for Stop Smoking Services Around 165,000 smokers quit between April and September 2007 - an increase of 28 per cent compared to the same perio

Political and CPDBVA Congress 2008 will be an event for the whole profession, combining both political and CPD sessions under the theme 'vets in a changing environment'. C

TOPIGEN Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company specialized in developing products for respiratory disorders, today announced the initiation of patient dosing in clinical

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) was much more sensitive and more accurate than conventional imaging methods in detecting response to treatment in sarcoma patients, according to a UCLA study tha

Carbon nanotubes-cylinders so tiny that it takes 50,000 lying side by side to equal the width of a human hair-are packed with the potential to be highly accurate vehicles for administering medicin

Blacks have almost double the rate of severe sepsis - an overwhelming infection of the bloodstream accompanied by acute organ dysfunction - as whites, according to recent research. The d

Support from the U.S. government helped Radhakrishna Foodland Pvt. Ltd. and the Nandani Farmer Cooperative sign an agreement establishing Nandani Farmer Cooperative as the primary supplier for Foo

Genetic Telepathy? A bizarre new property of DNAJournal of Physical Chemistry BScientists are reporting evidence that intact, double-stranded DNA has the amazin

An anti-inflammatory drug similar to aspirin may provide an inexpensive means of treating and/or reducing the risk for diabetes in obese young adults by reducing glycemia and lowering inflammation

In a significant step towards improving the design of future catalysts and catalytic reactors, especially for microfluidic lab-on-a-chip devices, researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's

As the GMC publishes its first issue of GMCtoday for 2008, we highlight some of the successes of 2007, look forward to plans for 2008 (including the implications of the Health and Social Care Bill

Diabetes UK is calling on all enthusiastic swimmers to take part in this year's relay race across the English Channel. Last August, four teams of six spirited swimmers tackled the English