Imperial Tobacco Canada have announced that they will test market a new type of smokeless tobacco called snus. Benjamin Kemball, president and CEO of Imperial Tobacco Canada, said the pow

Approximately 30% of Canadians suffer daily from chronic pain. Patients may be affected differently depending on the intensity, but all chronic pain is debilitating and difficult to treat. A study

Members of Congress this month will continue to push legislation (HR 2371) that would strengthen dental care for c

Employer-sponsored health insurance premiums increased by an average of 6.1% in 2007, less than the 7.7% increase in 2006 but more than the 3.7% increase in employee wages and the inflation rate

UNICEF on Monday called for pressure to be maintained on Egypt to stop the practice of female genital cutting,

Peering at microscopic changes within the retina, scientists in the Department of Ophthalmology at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City, have discovered a key mechanism driving eye healt

Within the scope of the German Osteoarthritis Trial (GOAT) the effects of different innovative medications in osteoarthritis (OA) therapy were studied. All 376 participants in the trial suffered

Late on Monday, September 10, the Congolese Ministry of Health officially declared an outbreak of Ebola haemorrhagic fever in West Kasai province in central Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). La

The United States continues to spend the most on health care when compared to other Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. Health care prices and higher per capita

A patient with chronic kidney disease (end-stage) who is treated with high doses of B vitamins and folic acid to reduce homocysteine levels does not experience survival improvements or a lowering

The American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF), one of the nation's oldest medical associations, will hold its 111th Annual Meeting & OTO EXPO in Washington,

PaperSignificant and urgent funding is needed to address the health care crisis in country Australia, and all political parties should use the upcoming federal election to put forward solutions to

Placebo Use in Clinical Trials May Cause Problems in Patients With Pulmonary HypertensionA new study shows that patients with pulmonary hypertension who receive a placebo during a

An important finding has been made by McMaster researchers about Fragile X Syndrome (FXS), a sex-linked genetic disorder that affects approximately one in 4,000 males and one in 6,000 females.

Vitamin D deficiency early in pregnancy is associated with a five-fold increased risk of preeclampsia, according to a study from the University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences reporte

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Children's Center and Cambridge University in England have designed an automated means of continuously tracking potentially dangerous changes in blood flow to th

Amgen (NASDAQ:AMGN) presented the results from a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 3 study evaluating the efficacy and safety of Aranesp(R) (darbepoetin alfa) in previously untrea

Several genes with strong associations to schizophrenia have evolved rapidly due to selection during human evolution, according to new research in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B (Wednesday

Tulane University will receive $14 million from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention over the next year to continue programs to fight HIV/AIDS in eight countries that lack the large-scal

Some experts have raised concerns about the accuracy of medical data on emergency workers who helped with recovery efforts after the collapse of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, reported

Our ability to hear is made possible by way of a Rube Goldberg-style process in which sound vibrations entering the ear shake and jostle a successive chain of structures until, lo and behold, they

Springer, one of the world's leading STM publishers, has signed publishing agreements with eight South Korean scientific societies during the past half year. With this move, Springer will be the p

Opioid-based pain medications may cause sleep apnea, according to an article in the September issue of Pain Medicine, the journal of the American Academy of Pain Medicine.We foun

If all middle-aged adults who had a family history of coronary heart disease were screened perhaps 40% or more of all premature heart attacks could be avoided, according to a report published in t

As family doctors are ignoring prescribing guidelines children in the UK are not receiving the best drug treatment for asthma, according to an article published in the Archives of Disease in Ch

UNISON Head of Nursing, Gail Adams, said:A ban on the wearing of crocs is an extreme reaction to three isolated incidents in one unit in one hospital in one country. And there is no proo

The Simons Foundation, through its Autism Research Initiative, has signed a $7.8 million, two-year contract with the Rutgers University Cell and DNA Repository (RUCDR) to establish a collection of

Following the publication of new research commissioned by the Food Standards Agency, parents of children showing signs of hyperactivity are being advised that eliminating certain artificial food c

It is well established that a child's brain has a remarkable capacity for change, but controversy continues about the extent to which such plasticity exists in the adult human primary sensory cort

Researchers have long attempted to unravel the cryptic code used by the neurons of the brain to represent our visual world. By studying the way the brain rapidly and precisely encodes natural visu