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The early stages of coronary artery disease in young smokers can be reversed quickly if they choose to put out their cigarettes for good, according to a positron emission tomography (PET) imaging
The cause of insulin-dependent, permanent, diabetes in newborn babies may be a deficiency in the enzyme Pancreatic Endoplasmic Reticulum Kinase (PERK) during a critical period of development befor
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) on Monday said that he seeks to attach a proposal to reverse a scheduled Medicare physician reimbursement reduction to a business-tax bill for passage
UroToday.com - Even as the use of ablative strategies for renal masses such as radiofrequency ablation (RFA) and cryoablation has continued to expand, no guidelines have been proposed for patient
Aides of Michael Enzi (R-Wyo.), chair of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, and ranking Democrat Sen. Edward Kennedy (Mass.)
The United Nations World Food Programme has warned that humanitarian operations in eastern Chad are becoming increasingly difficult, with periodic fighting forcing the agency to temporarily sus
The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief program in Kenya is widely considered the most successful and sophisticated of the PEPFAR progr
Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter (R) and representatives from Planned Parenthood of Indiana on Thursday signed a settlement agreement after a
Sirion Therapeutics, Inc., an ophthalmic-focused biopharmaceuticals company, announced today that it has begun enrollment of a phase II clinical trial, which will evaluate fenretinide in the tr
An average child or teenager in the US sees more than 3,000 advertisements a day, and leading doctors suggest this is linked to increasing obesity, poor nutrition and abuse of alcohol and cigare
Dr. Pierre Drapeau, a researcher funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and professor and chairman of Pathology and Cell Biology at the Universite de Montreal, has been named
For patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), adding inhaled iloprost to treatment with bosentan - two different classes of drugs often used individually to treat PAH - increases exerci
Physicians who once treated mainly elderly patients for health problems such as diabetes, heart disease and stroke are seeing increasingly younger patients who have the same ailments.A r
Jonathan Moreno discusses his new book, Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense (Nov. 2006/Dana Press) in a public lecture featuring Jennifer Bard, Professor of Law and Director of the Heal
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Thursday ahead of World AIDS Day urged world citizens to hold their leaders accountable in
The articles below will be published online November 30, 2006 at 4 p.m. (EST) by the American Journal of Public Health under First Look at
Twenty five years after the first case was reported, HIV/AIDS is killing over 250,000 people each month - akin to a tsunami every month, says Professor Robert Gallo, co-discoverer of the virus and
Keeping tabs on your weight during the holiday season can be a daunting challenge. Between parties, family dinners and cookie baking, there's plenty of temptation to abandon healthy eating and
Children with a form of bedwetting that does not respond to a common medication have more sodium and urea in their nighttime urine, possibly because of an imbalance of prostaglandin, a hormone-lik
The December 2006 issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association contains articles and research studies you may find of interest. Below is a summary of some of this month's artic
P(acman) - a new method of introducing DNA into the genome of fruit flies or Drosophila - promises to transform the ability of scientists to study the structure and function of virtually all the f
Helping caregivers take care of themselves is key to enabling them to better deal with family members with dementia, a recent study by Thomas Jefferson University researchers shows. In fact, those
Scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research have made a significant breakthrough in predicting the behaviour of Wilms' tumour (a type of childhood kidney cancer). For children with the aggress
Magnets may interfere with the operation of pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs), according to a study published in the December 2006 edition of Heart Rhythm.
Scientists have discovered an unsuspected role for a gene known to be one of the best predictors of human breast cancer outcome.The gene, called GATA-3, is in a family of genes that guid
Health insurance costs are increasingly rattling start-up companies and, in some cases, keeping would-be entrepreneurs on the sidelines, especially those with pre-existing medical conditions,
Shawnee County, Kan., District Court Judge Richard Anderson -- who permitted Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline (R) to view edited medical records of 90 women and girls who underwent late-term a
Type schools and staph infections into a leading Internet search engine, and you'll find over 360,000 results. And for good reason. The latest National Cleaning Survey from The
Patients with overactive bladder (OAB) treated with VESIcare(R) (solifenacin succinate) experienced statistically significant reductions in episodes of urgency (the sudden, compelling need to u
A biologist at Washington University in St. Louis and his collaborators have identified the factor in mammalian brain cells that keeps cells in synchrony so that functions like the wake-sleep cycl