Nurses in four cities on Tuesday filed lawsuits alleging that more than 17 hospitals conspired to maintain artificially low wages, the Wall Street Journal reports. Several thousand n

The House on Tuesday by voice vote approved a measure (HR 1285) that aims to increase medical services in regions

Indonesia's Health Ministry has confirmed that a 13-year-old boy is the country's 51st human case of H5N1 bird flu infection. The boy is from South Jakarta, he developed bird flu like symptoms on

Dr. Tallie Z. Baram, a UC Irvine School of Medicine neurologist and one of the world's top epilepsy researchers, has received a Senator Jacob Javits Award in the Neurosciences, the nation's most

Neuroscientists have proposed a simple explanation for the pleasure of grasping a new concept: The brain is getting its fix.The click of comprehension triggers a biochemical cascade t

Keratinocyte growth factor (KGF) is used to limit epithelial tissue damage from radiation and chemotherapy in patients with blood cancers. However, concerns arise over whether KGF's use in patien

House Ways and Means Committee Chair Bill Thomas (R-Calif.) and other committee members have indicated that they plan to pass legislat

Members of rural Appalachian households who lack access to food or experience hunger are more likely to be obese and have diabetes, according to an Ohio University study.Researcher Davi

Long-term oral anticoagulant (blood thinner) therapy is prescribed for a variety of reasons, such as the prevention or treatment of blood clots after heart valve replacement. Traditionally, pat

The Louisiana Recovery Authority on Thursday approved a resolution endorsing the recommendations of a recent report that calls for removing

The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief's emphasis on the ABC HIV prevention model -- which stands for abstinence,

Children who stutter often face greater challenges managing their behavior and emotions than other children, researchers have found, offering new insight into how to help these children in a

Bill Gates on Thursday announced plans to relinquish over the next two years all daily work duties at Microsoft, the company he founded, an

FDA on Thursday announced the approval of GlaxoSmithKline's drug Hycamtin for use in c

HERO, an awareness-building andfundraising campaign of the United Nations Association of the United Statesof America (UNA-USA), dedicated to helping support children living inHIV/AIDS-affected

Few women are consulting their doctors before opting to use herbal therapies and soy products to treat their menopausal symptoms, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have fo

In two related studies, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have pinpointed defective genes in mice responsible for triggering the mysterious autoimmune disease lupus, which prompts the

UNICEF today expressed its deep concern that children and women could be trafficked and subjected to sexual exploitation during the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Some seven million fans are expec

Few Australian pharmaceutical companies and physicians are applying for permission to supply mifepristone to women in the country, the West Australian reports (Rasdien, West A

Dasatinib, an experimental drug under development by Bristol-Myers Squibb, reverses the signs and symptoms of patients whose chronic myeloid leukemia has failed to respond to Gleevec, which is co

The American Medical Association's House of Delegates on Tuesday voted to support a proposal to require U.S. residents with annual incomes g

UroToday.com - Variables that influence a patients' choice of treatment for localized prostate cancer (CaP) are identified in a literature review that is authored by Dr. Zeliadt and colleagues and

The American Government has handed out $1.4 billion's worth of hurricane assistance to bogus claimants. The list of dishonest claimants includes people who managed to acquire football season tick

Advanced Magnetics(Amex: AVM) today announced that the independent Data Monitoring Committee(DMC) providing oversight for the ferumoxytol Phase III iron replacementtherapy program met and infor

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have developed what they call a Smart Petri Dish that could be used to rapidly screen new drugs for toxic interactions or identify cells i

The Newark Star-Ledger on Sunday examined how nearly tw

Heart attack patients who stopped taking antiplatelet drugs (which help prevent blood clots) within 30 days of receiving a drug-coated stent had nine times the risk of death compared to patients

Back when he was 20 years old in 1965, rock star Pete Townshend wrote the line I hope I die before I get old into a song, My Generation that launched his band, the Who, onto the rock 'n' roll

Because of these differences, this new estrogen receptor could become an important therapeutic target and may play a further signaling role in other estrogen target tissues, including uterus and

New insights into how a subpopulation of helper T-cells provides immunity and promotes survival following infection with an AIDS-like virus offer a new means of predicting an AIDS vaccine's effec