At the Prostate Cancer Foundation's Annual Scientific Retreat, researchers shared new findings on how eating common foods such as tomatoes and fish, maintaining a healthy weight, and avoiding meat

Were Neanderthals direct ancestors of contemporary humans or an evolutionary side branch that eventually died out? This is one of the enduring questions in human evolution as scientists explore th

Physicians at UT Southwestern Medical Center are the first in Texas to use a new technique in which a small radioactive pellet, or seed, is implanted into a mass or suspicious lesion in the brea

The SCHIP debate is fast becoming a proxy for a larger discussion about how the Republican party wants to present itself to voters, the Wall Street Journal reports (Rogers,

Canadian Institutes of Health Research President Alan Bernstein on Thursday in Cape Town, South Africa, was appointed the first e

A patient passport, outlining individual anesthetic experiences and side effects, can help patients to better understand the procedures they have undergone in the operating room and potentially

Ethicon Endo-Surgery announced at the American College of Surgeons 93rd Annual Clinical Conference the launch of the HARMONIC FOCUS™ Curved Shears, a new nine centimeter advanced energy devi

US Marshals seized about $71,000 of FulLife Natural Options Inc. goods last Tuesday for violating new drug and misbranding provisions of Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. The company marketed

Although the numbers sound ominous, the global rates of induced abortions, in fact, went down 17% during the period 1995-2003, as have total numbers - in 1995 there were a total of 46 million ab

An intravenous blood thinner widely used in patients with acute coronary syndromes and during coronary artery stent placement appears to be safe in patients with sickle cell disease and may have

Through the generous support of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF), the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) is pleased to announce the inaugural recipients of the 2007 BCRF-A

A new no scar surgery making use of the body's natural orifices, called Natural Orifice Translumenal Surgery (NOTES), is gaining traction among surgeons and gastroenterologists. The procedure in

A research team led by Dr. Paul Harch, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans and Director of the LSU Hyperbaric Medicine Fellows

In one of the first studies to examine air pollution in relation to infant and early childhood health, a UC Davis researcher has discovered a strong link between exposure to components of air poll

UroToday.com - The strength of this study is that it covers all fractures at the national level. This was made possible by robust Danish health registers with long term coverage (back to 1977) and

PTC Therapeutics, Inc. (PTC), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of small-molecule drugs targeting post-transcriptional control mechanisms,

Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals (NYSE: P&G)announced today that Asacol® (mesalazine) 800mg Modified Release (MR) tablets have beenapproved for the treatment of mild to moderate ulcerative c

The Department of Veterans Affairs, in an effort to protect patient privacy, has issued a directive that states must sign before VA hospitals can pr

Pharmion Corporation (Nasdaq: PHRM) and MethylGene Inc. (TSX: MYG) announced the initiation of a Phase One clinical trial evaluating MGCD0103, the Companies' isotype-selective histone deacetyl

New research highlighting the devastating impact of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) on peoples' lives has found that one third of people with RA do not always tell their healthcare professionals the tru

Medical Research Council funded scientist Sir Martin Evans, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2007 alongside Mario R. Capecchi and Oliver Smithies for their discoverie

A new report from the National Research Council recommends that government agencies enhance their efforts to incorporate genomic data into risk assessments of chemicals and medicines, and calls f

Optherion, Inc., a University of Iowa Research Foundation licensee and a company developing products to diagnose and treat age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and other chronic diseases, has an

Researchers have identified which sites and cell types within the respiratory tract are targeted by human versus avian influenza viruses, providing valuable insights into the pathogenesis of these

HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality announced the 14 institutions that will comprise the third iteration of its Evidence-Based Practice Centers program. AHRQ's EPCs conduct re

The 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review continues a decade of unprecedented investment with a three-year settlement for the Department of Health, increasing the NHS budget by 4 per cent per y

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have created the first animal model of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) caused by a mutation known to produce disease in peop

Optherion, Inc. - a company that will use groundbreaking discoveries by scientists at Yale and the University of Iowa to develop products to diagnose and treat Age-Related Macular Degeneration (A

Summaries of opinion pieces addressing the issue of health care in the 2008 presidential election appear below.Deroy Murdock,

The fight against HIV/AIDS is far from over, and the only way to reverse the spread of the virus is to focus on prevention, Richard Holbrooke, president of the