The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) has released the

AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) President and Chief Executive Officer Darrell G. Kirch, M.D., issued the following statement, in response to the report of the U.S. Department of He

A 29 year old registered midwife from Bradford, West Yorkshire has been given a 5-year caution following a hearing at the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) in London. Ms Rachel Cromar

A 65 year old registered adult nurse from Chelmsford, Essex has been struck off the register for failing to administer a prescribed controlled drug. Comfort Ominiyi Jegede was a D Grade

In elderly patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL),* six cycles of CHOP-14 chemotherapy** in combination with eight applications of rituximab (R-CHOP-14) is as efficacious as eight c

Europe must adopt the World Health Organization (WHO) standard on fine particulate matter pollution if it is to significantly curb needless premature deaths, concludes research in the Journal o

The NICE guidelines on follow-up for breast cancer patients need urgent revision, warn experts in this week's BMJ.More than 1.2 million women and men worldwide are diagnosed with b

Pfizer, who make the smoking cessation drug Chantix (varenicline), have updated the drug's labelling in the United States to reflect the fact patients may experience serious neuropsychiatric sy

The BMA endorses the view that generic drugs should be prescribed wherever possible and believes doctors should be encouraged to prescribe generic medicines, providing the standard of these drugs

Improving the quality of pre-operative ultrasound examination (ultrasonography) could lead to a significant decrease in the number of unnecessary major surgical operations done on women with suspe

In a Comment in this week's edition of The Lancet, a former US naval captain and interim health minister of Iraq criticises the US Department of Defense strategy of analysing achievement i

US researchers found that pregnant women who have large doses of caffeine every day, for example from coffee, tea, hot chocolate or caffeinated soda or fizzy drinks, have an increased risk of lo

Abbott announced it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to market HUMIRA® (adalimumab) as a treatment for adult patients with moderate to severe chronic plaque psoria

GlaxoSmithKline plc announced that once-daily Avamys™(fluticasone furoate) nasal spray has been granted marketing authorisation by the European Commission for all 27 European member states,

GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK) and XenoPort, Inc. (Nasdaq: XNPT) announced positive top-line results from a placebo-controlled Phase 3 clinical trial designed to evaluate the potential of XP13512(GSK

Janssen-Cilag International NV announced that IONSYS™ (fentanyl iontophoretic transdermal system), a new innovative, needle-free system indicated for the management of acute post-operative p

A leader in recent research on the interaction of genes and environment in the development of psychiatric illness, Avshalom Caspi, Ph.D. of King's College London, has been awarded the Mortimer D.

Texas Children's Hospital has been named the national lead center for a 12-hospital, 36-month clinical trial of the German-manufactured pediatric heart pump called Berlin Heart EXCOR® Pediatri

Join experts from the Administration, Congress, and academia on Feb. 4-5, 2008to discuss evidence-based solutions to the top health policy issues of 2008. Topics include fostering better care wi

In the battle against malignant brain tumors, dual implantation of radioactive seeds and chemotherapy wafers following surgery showed promising results in a study led by specialists at the Neurosc

A non-invasive diagnostic tool to detect surface cancers quickly and painlessly using technology currently employed by gyms to calculate body composition has been developed by a QUT PhD medical ph

The National Academy of Sciences' Sackler Colloquium series will hold a meeting on gene regulatory networks. These networks represent the genomic program for the development of animal embryos, bod

The human brain is capable of detecting the slightest visual and auditory changes. Whether it is the flash of a student's hand into the air or the faintest miscue of a flutist, the brain instantan

Researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute of McGill University have identified the neurological basis of depression in male athletes with persisting post-concussion symptoms. The study, p

Rio Tinto Alcan reinforced its commitment to community involvement with a $1-million donation to the 'Thinking Ahead Campaign' at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital (MNI), affiliated

Researchers at the Tenovus Centre for Cancer Research at Cardiff University have made a breakthrough in breast cancer treatment that could help save the lives of women who become resistant to brea

New research at the University of Chicago finds evidence for a clever way that people manage to alleviate the pain of loneliness: They create people in their surroundings to keep them company.

Scientists from the San Diego Supercomputer Center and other parts of the University of California, San Diego - conducting research in Parkinson's Disease, fusion energy and climate change - were

The Biophysical Society is pleased to announce that it will host two public affairs sessions during its Joint Meeting with the International Biophysics Congress in Long Beach, California, February

The World Technology Evaluation Center, Inc., (WTEC), the nation's leading organization for conducting international technology assessments, has recruited a panel of U.S. experts to study the worl