Researchers say one of the best ways to find new treatments for cancer is to study tissue samples from tumors. The problem is that scientists don't always have the amount of tissue they need.*

Most patients who undergo surgery are given medicine to put them out before the procedure, and pills to help them cope with the pain afterwards. Now, an innovative approach may reduce the amount

January/February 2008 Issue, Health Affairs

The Iowa Legislative Commission on Affordable Health Care on Tuesday recommended that lawmakers extend health coverage to all children in the state as the first step to establishing universal cov

It happens more than a thousand times a month* - another family in the U.S. is told that their child has some form of cancer. Those kids aren't the only ones who are affected. All too often, th

FDA in 2007 approved 19 new medications, a decrease from 22 in 2006 and the lowest number since 1983, when the agency approved 14 new treatments, a

Indiana-based WellPoint on Tuesday announced the launch of an online physician ranking guide developed in partnership with

If you're constantly reaching for antacids to control your heartburn, you may have a more serious problem called reflux disease. Some 25 million Americans have it* and now they have a new option

If you're like millions of other Americans who made a New Year's resolution to lose weight, you know how hard it can be. Most of us start out with good intentions, but we have a hard time sticki

The Wall Street Journal on Thursday examined how adult day care, an i

A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday granted a temporary stay of a district court order and allow San Francisco to move forward with its universal health coverag

The American Medical Association on Tuesday announced the nationwide expansion of a campaign that seeks to focus the health care debate in the

Several Democratic Florida lawmakers on Tuesday announced that they have proposed a bill that would require public schools in the state to include information about contraception and sexually tr

A drug originally used to treat iron poisoning can significantly boost the body's own ability to heal and re-grow injured bones, according to researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingha

A paired sedation and ventilator weaning protocol consisting of daily spontaneous awakening trials (SATs) - ie, daily interruption of sedatives - with spontaneous breathing trials (SBTs) results i

UroToday.com- The important association that increased circulating plasma volumes in obese men may hemodilute PSA and result in lower levels is reported in the November 21, 2007 issue of the Journ

UroToday.com- Patients presenting with a PSA

UroToday.com- There has been significant decreases in the incidence of advanced stage breast, prostate, and colon cancer primarily from active cancer screening programs. Despite knowing the great

UroToday.com -The standard of care for localized muscle-invasive bladder cancer is radical cystectomy. However, this procedure is not without risk of complications and poor quality of life outcome

UroToday.com - There is a lack of consensus on the optimal timing and management of Peyronie's disease (PD). This stems in large part from our limited understanding of the pathophysiology of the d

BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - Our report includes 47 patients, evaluated retrospectively, fulfilling the NIH/NIDDK criteria and assigned to subtype: classic versus non-ulcer BPS/IC. The average me

BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - Despite the considerable attention that the Clusterin (CLU) gene has received from many research laboratories, its possible biological role is still debated. CLU is o

Do your ears ring after a loud concert? Nerves that sense touch in your face and neck may be behind the racket in your brain, University of Michigan researchers say. Touch-sensing nerv

UCLA scientists have used language onset the age when a child speaks his first word as a tool for identifying a new gene linked to autism. The team also discovered that the gene is most active in

A new study published recently in The Lancet reveals that one of the most commonly used asthma medicines -- long-acting beta-agonists -- may not be associated with adverse events in people

Transgene (Euronext Paris: FR0005175080) announces promising preliminary data from the Phase IIb trial evaluating its therapeutic vaccine TG4010 (MVA-MUC1-IL2) as an adjunct to first line chem

American Heart Association President Daniel W. Jones, M.D. urged Congress to pass legislation to help Americans control their risk factors for cardiovascular diseases. With obesity, hypertensi

Illinois scored one very high and three very low grades in tobacco control policies from the American Lung Association's State of Tobacco Control 2007 report, which highlighted significant pro

No matter how old diabetes patients are, whether or not they have cardiovascular disease, irrespective of whether they are male or female, statin therapy reduces the risk of major vascular events,

ETHICON, INC. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted an expanded indication for EVICEL(TM) Fibrin Sealant (Human). The product is the first fibrin sealant to be indica