'Cats & Dogs Take Priority In New London Poison Strategy'Unite calls on government to save Guy's Poisons UnitThe welfare of cats and dogs will come before the fall-out from any t

Knowing key facts about bone health can help reduce the risk of osteoporosis, a disease that causes bones to become weak, brittle and prone to fracture. Bone loss that leads to osteoporosis often

Vical Incorporated (Nasdaq: VICL) announced the scheduled presentation of preliminary human safety and immunogenicity data from a Phase 1 trial of the company's Vaxfectin(R)-formulat

An analysis published on bmj.comconcludes that greater health benefits can be achieved through slowingthe aging process rather than targeting specific d

LegalView, the most comprehensive legal resource available on the Web, released details of a newly advertised clinical trial that will target radiation and chemotherapy treatments rather than sur

Nine out of ten regular food items aimed specifically at children have a poor nutritional content - because of high levels of sugar, fat or sodium - according to a detailed study of 367 products

Researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have developed a method that allows for the early detection of a common mechanism of resistance on drug treatment for chronic myeloid leu

People with a family history of diabetes and those carrying extra weight should visit their GP to learn how to minimise the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, AMA Vice President Dr Gary Speck sai

More and more people are failing to recognise they are overweight, despite an actual rise in the number of people who are clinically overweight or obese, according to research published on

Learning from Past Emergency ResponseIn a special session running all day Wednesday, July 16, 2008, presenters will share lessons learned during past incidents involving emergency

The nation's fourth and eighth graders scored higher in reading and mathematics than they did during their last national assessment, according to the federal government's latest annual statistical

Dr. William DeFoor, et al., retrospectively reviewed all children who presented with urolithiasis at a single pediatric institution between 1999 and 2006. They wanted to determine which children

Abbott announced the start of the XIENCE V™ USA post-approval study, with six hospital centers already recruiting and enrolling patients just one week after the U.S. Food and Drug Administra

Nearly two thirds of NHS acute hospital switchboards fail to answer incoming calls within twenty seconds. The longest wait was 18 minutes. The average answering time across all switchboards was 45

Each year more than 7 million high school students participate in interscholastic athletics in the U.S. , and approximately 715,000 sport-related and recreation-related injuries occur in school se

Yemen's Parliament is expected to begin debating a law that aims to protect the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS and address related stigma and discrimination, Yemen's

Gov. Ed Rendell (D) on Tuesday signed an executive order reopening the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council one week after it was

Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America on Thursday is expected to announce new voluntary guidelines prohibiting gifts to doctors as

Award-winning, orthopaedic surgeon, Russell Warren, MD, will join three other physicians as a 2008 American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM) Hall of Fame inductee. The induction ta

Pears and apples contain air pathways to breathe. The pathways are microscopically small structures for oxygen supply and are key elements in determining the fruit's health. Researchers from the

Research involving large Middle Eastern families, sophisticated genetic analysis and groundbreaking neuroscience has implicated a half-dozen new genes in autism. More importantly, it strongly supp

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that it is revising the way it communicates to drug companies when a marketing application cannot be approved as submitted. Under new regul

Whencombined with the conventional cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR),extracorporeal life support (ELS) can double the survival of adulthospital patients in comparison with CPR alone. These r

After completing their simulation component in the German-Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System (GITEWS), the team for tsunami modelling of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Rese

Nepal is on track to meet the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by 2015 -- including targets related to HIV/AIDS preventio

Cerimon Pharmaceuticals, Inc., announced it has initiated a Phase II proof-of-concept study of Simulect(R) (basiliximab) for the treatment of noninfectious uveitis, a chronic and potentially si

For the vast majority of biological systems we have no idea as to which mathematical description is best and this ignorance seriously hinders progress in many areas of the biomedical sciences.

We describe a new link between physiological development of a highly derived mammalian tissue, and life history constraints. The heads of vertebrates are recognized as potentially being the body p

Neuropsychopharmacology and mental disorders: Bridging the gap between science and medicineThe enormous burden and amount of suffering associated with mental disorders represent o

Even though cigarette smoking accounts for up to half of all bladder cancer cases, few people are aware of the connection - including more than three-quarters of patients who have bladder cancer,