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The Medicare funding warning included in this year's Trustees Report is just the latest of many ticking time bombs hidden in the pages of the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003. This war
The International Society of Nephrology (ISN) has announced Eduardo Slatopolsky, Joseph Friedman Professor of Renal Diseases in Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine (St. Louis, Misso
An analysis of nearly 300 umbilical cord blood samples led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health shows that newborn babies are exposed to perfluorooctane sulfonate
Even women who are healthy need regular preventive services like breast exams, Pap tests, immunizations, and (starting at age 50) fecal occult blood testing, along with periodic measurements of
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, a division of Wyeth (NYSE: WYE), announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an approvable letter for bazedoxifene, a selective estrogen r
The question is not whether we should study the safety of drugs for children, but how we make that research happen, and the Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act, which will expire this year,
Some financial advisers have recommended that health savings accounts can be a way for families to accumulate money to be used to cover health care costs in retirement, including Medicare deduct
New data presented today1 at the World Congress of Nephrology (WCN) shows that once-monthly methoxy polyethylene glycol-epoetin beta effectively stabilises haemoglobin levels in patients over the
Large swaths of garbled human DNA once dismissed as junk appear to contain some valuable sections, according to a new study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the Uni
Oriental therapies can help chronically ill people stay strong and reduce stress levels during epidemics, according to research in the April issue of the UK-based Journal of Clinical Nursing.
Alimera Sciences, a privately held ophthalmic pharmaceutical company, and global drug delivery company pSivida Limited (Nasdaq: PSDV, ASX: PSD, Xetra: PSI) today announced that enrollment for t
Congress ought to eliminate the subsidies for private Medicare Advantage plans unless it is willing to subsidize the same benefits -- at enormous cost -- for the far greater number of people e
Since cholera was confirmed in Mogadishu on March19, 2007, the international humanitarian medical aid organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has treated more than 80
Figures released today show that 1.1 million smokers (1 in 10) actually stopped smoking on last month's No Smoking Day (14 March) and a third of all smokers took a positive step towards stopping s
This article out of Johns Hopkins reviewed the risk of renal cell carcinoma occurring as a secondary malignancy after chemotherapy in childhood. It is known that children who survive cancer are at
The Muscular Dystrophy Campaign issued a statement in support of the House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee report on the Government's proposals for the regulation of hybrid and
Some HIV-infected patients in Uganda who self-paid for their antiretroviral medications experienced interruptions in drug supply due to either financial demands or supply logistical disruptions. T
Researchers from Canada and Australia have found that the use of remote monitoring for patients with chronic heart failure has the potential to significantly improve clinical outcomes (mortality,
Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is notoriously resistant to a wide spectrum of treatment modalities such as radiation and chemotherapy. This has forced clinical researchers to look elsewhere for effect
The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation announced today the kick-off of GREAT STRIDES, a national walk benefiting critical cystic fibrosis research, education and care programs. GREAT STRIDES, now in its 1
A peptide found in human blood inhibited 60 strains of HIV from infecting cells in laboratory tests, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Cell, the
Resistentia Pharmaceuticals AB, a biopharmaceutical company developing immunotherapeutic products for allergic asthma and inflammatory disorders, announced today the start of a Phase II clinical t
A policy paper and principles assuring that physicians are given the opportunity to comment on performance ratings that they believe are inaccurate were adopted by the American College of Physicia
Four-year-old girls are six times more likely to have a Body Mass Index (BMI) of more than 30 than they were 20 years ago and ten-year-olds are five times more likely, according to research publ
The Indian government plans to provide HIV-positive people with access to second-line antiretroviral drugs as early as next year, National AIDS
Complications from unsafe abortions are the leading cause of emergency gynecological hospital admissions in Kenya, according to a study recently published in the East African Medical Journa
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) psychologists have developed an animal model for the binge eating disorder, which affects an estimated one in 20 Americans. The Sprague-Dawley rat model c
A special report in The New England Journal of Medicine concludes that the sharp decline in breast-cancer incidence in 2003, followed by a relative stabilization at a lower rater in 2004, i
Changing one's diet to lose weight is often difficult. There may be physical and psychological effects from a changed diet that reduce the chances for success. With nearly 65% of the adult populat
The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief recently announced that it will provide Vietnam with $59 million this year to prevent and fight H