About 5,000 people around the world die from tuberculosis every day, but no effective new drugs have been developed to combat it in 40 years. Researchers at the National High Magnetic Field Labora

In a clinical trial published this week in PLoS Medicine, Charles Sawyers and colleagues looked at the safety of a drug called rapamycin in a selected group of patients who were undergo

SAGE, the world's fifth largest journals publisher, looks set to continue its successful growth in public health this year, announcing a new partnership with the International Union for Health Pro

A parasitic infection common in China and Southeast Asia could be effectively reduced by controlling snail populations, according to research published in PLoS Medicine. In

Public health officials are constantly in battle mode against illness from food contaminants or a possible pandemic, but to fight these deadly foes they need more complete information and they nee

The United Nations on Tuesday said it will launch a $40 million appeal to address the political crisis in Kenya and provide services for people displaced by the violence, including those living H

Findings from a new study in Zanzibar, published January 23 in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, pave the way for the World Health Organization (WHO) to recommend the mass co-delivery o

Botswana's Ministry of Health on Wednesday said it has confirmed the country's first two cases of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, which

The Alliance Defense Fund on Monday filed a lawsuit in San Jose, Calif., federal court on behalf of a high school s

Five chairs of congressional committees with health care jurisdiction on Tuesday in a letter to HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt called on the agency to i

The U.S. abortion rate declined 9% from 2000 to 2005, reaching its lowest rate since 1974, according to a study released Thursday by the Guttmach

A detailed study of the first year of operation of a midwifery-led rural maternity service in Mareeba, North Queensland, provides hope that more rural maternity units can remain viable if there is

Two articles in the latest Medical Journal of Australia raise concerns about the safety of medication practices in hospitals, one analysing the reasons for prescribing errors by interns and

Family members are sometimes unable to carry out their relative's wish to donate organs when they die, because of conflicting feelings between making a gift of life and protecting the body of th

It was once pulled off the market in the 1950s, but now a new version of the drug thalidomide is giving some cancer patients hope. When it comes to some hard-to-treat blood cancers, it's easy to

This time of year, a lot of us get flu shots to help our bodies fight off any signs of the flu. What if you could do the same for cancer? Doctors are already testing the idea in women who have o

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has published six new commissioning guides to help the NHS in England effectively commission evidence-based care for patients.The g

The Technion- Israel Institute of Technology have developed an innovative device for monitoring respiration, especially in premature babies. The non-invasive technology, which is being clinically

Scientists at the University of Manchester have found links between many types of childhood cancer and increased breast cancer risk in the mother. Although a previous study found high ris

In 1994, the team of Tchernev and Petrova from Alexandrovska Hospital in Sofia examined a female patient with liver cirrhosis caused by chronic Hepatitis C virus (HCV). They were intrigued by the

Liver cancer is the fifth most common cancer in the world with a poor prognosis. About three quarters of the cases of liver cancer are found in Southeast Asia, including China, Hong Kong, Taiwan,

Lamivudine is an effective antiviral agent for treatment of patients with chronic hepatitis B and advanced liver diseases. However, long-term lamivudine monotherapy leads to the emergence of lami

Many hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients in China may be treated with Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Some say it works, others doubt its effectiveness. These stated that a research group

Obesity is a worldwide health problem directly linked to several diseases such as hypertension and type 2 diabetes. Resistin is a cysteine-rich hormone mainly secreted by adipose tissues and may

All multicellular animals have an innate immune system: When bacteria, parasites or fungi invade the organism, small protein molecules are released that eliminate the attackers. Scientists of the

A study published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health suggests that secondary school attendance is linked to lower risk of HIV infection among young people in rural South Af

In his fifth and new self-published book Breathe, Freedom: Kicking the Crap Out of Cigarettes, Dr. Kevin Alderson, a clinical hypnotist and associate professor in applied psychology at the U of C

Few things sting like a mosquito's bite - especially if that bite carries a disease such as malaria, yellow fever, Dengue fever or West Nile virus. But if researchers from The University of Arizon

New, innovative medicines are under-used by the NHS, not over-prescribed as claimed by the Committee of Public Accounts, the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) said today.

Latest ABPI medical representatives' exam results highlight the continued commitment to maintaining and improving industry standards, the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industrty announ