Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) on Thursday signed into law a bill that will increase the state's cigarette tax by 44 cents per pack to fund a health insurance program for low-income residents, th

Australian Prime Minister John Howard on Friday said he is preparing a plan that would tighten regulations concerning HIV-positive immigrants seeking to enter the country, the

PBS has recently shot a feature story on the effect of the Transcendental Meditation technique on ADHD. We have just learned that it will air this May 25-27 weekend throughout the USA. To

Rheumatology researchers have discovered that a well-known cell receptor sends a signal to dampen the immune system. While not having an immediate application to treating disease, the fin

The Royal Society of Medicine has now launched its new website at www.rsm.ac.uk. This marks a dramatic improvement with a completely new design and layout that improves navigability, accessibil

Responding to the publication of the report of the Chief Nursing Officer for England's report on mixed-sex wards the Royal College of Nursing General Secretary Peter Carter said, The RCN

With the advent of more powerful and economical DNA sequencing technologies, gene discovery and characterization is transitioning from single-organism studies to revealing the potential biotechnol

Transforming garbage into renewable energy to grow tomatoes - now that's a sustainable solution. Christian Paradis, Secretary of State (Agriculture), has announced that a $4-million grant would be

In a first of its kind study, a research team based at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health found that changes in urban sprawl and climate that are projected to occur in the New York City me

Weill Cornell Medical College researchers are using a virtual reality simulation called Virtual Iraq to better understand how symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) develop. In their

The American Association of Kidney Patients (AAKP) announced today its first call for nominations for its 2007 Annual Awards. As part of AAKP's ongoing public education efforts, the annual awards

Individuals who have higher dietary intake of foods with omega-3 fatty acids and higher fish consumption have a reduced risk of advanced age-related macular degeneration, while those with higher s

What might have been or fictive learning affects the brain and plays an important role in the choices individuals make - and may play a role in addiction, said Baylor College of Medicine researc

130 delegates from more than 30 national medical associations attended the 176th Council session of the World Medical Association in Berlin. They discussed a number of issues, including the

Elsevier has announced its partnership with Rice Science, a quarterly publication which is now part of the China Collection on Elsevier's ScienceDirect online platform.R

Human beings are directly responsible for more than 110,000 chemical substances which have been generated since the Industrial Revolution. Every year, we invent more than 2,000 new substances, m

Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) today announced that it has completed enrolment in the European and Intercontinental phases (II and III) of its TAXUS OLYMPIA registry, bringing the total

Cosmetic Surgery Times, a publishing industry leader in the cosmetic surgery arena, featured Dr. Oleh Slupchynskyj in a recent article on March 1st, 2007, Achieving Facial Harmony: Novel

In his response to the PAC's1 report on PFI2debt refinancing, Chairman of the BMA's Consultants' Committee, Dr Jonathan Fielden, said: This report confirms what the BMA has been saying f

In response to the Karolinska report, a global comparison on access to cancer treatments, released today, Cancerbackup issues the following response: Access to treatments is a complex is

When disaster strikes, getting care to the victims is at the top of everyone's attention. But who will provide that care? In two studies to be presented at the 2007 Society for Academic Emergency

CMS has the data and computer capacity to identify physicians who are inefficient compared with their colleagues and as early as mid-2008 might

Researchers are zeroing in on discovering vaccines against HIV/AIDS and other diseases, such as malaria and tuberculosis, that largely affect the developing world, scientists said this week at

A proposal unveiled earlier this week by Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D) could help fund short-term human embryonic stem cell research that is not receiving

Thousands of men facing surgical removal of the prostate due to cancer may someday have one less thing to worry about: post-surgical urinary incontinence. That's because a team o

How we look is of the greatest importance nowadays since it express who we are, but is it really possible to tell the essence of an individual fromits form? The answer to that question seems to b

Unfair treatment in life boosts a person's chances of having a heart attack, suggests research in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. The findings are based on more t

Low tar lite cigarettes impair blood flow through the heart as severely as regular cigarettes, reveals a small study published ahead of print in the journal Heart. The findings a

A networked approach to addressing new questions facing basic research - that is the formula for success of the Priority Programmes of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Fou

Congress has an historic opportunity to join with the American College of Physicians (ACP), other physician organizations and employers to redesign Medicare payment policies to provide incentives