The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a lower court ruling that upholds a Maine law requiring pharmacy benefit managers to disclose the discounts they negotiate with drugmakers, CQ

This is a significant international study by an important investigative group. The authors hypothesize that there may be significant genetic abnormalities that have not been identified in inferti

Despite their side effects, treatments like warfarin are still the best way to prevent stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation (an abnormal heart rhythm), according to a paper in this week's

Hospital Inpatient Costs for Adults With Multiple Chronic Conditions, Medical Care Res

HIV/AIDS is expected to cost China's economy nearly $40 billion over the next five years, mostly because of lost labor as people become sick or die of AIDS-related illnesses, Zeng Yi, chief scien

The not-for-profit group Consumers Union in the July issue of

Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) last week said she has requested a face-to-face meeting with President Bush regarding a bill (

A federally funded team of researchers including several from Johns Hopkins have identified six regions of the human genome that might play a role in susceptibility to obsessive compulsive disorde

The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday examined the Bush administration's efforts to consolidate foreign aid programs under the U.S. Stat

The Los Angeles Times on Monday examined

Nerve signals relayed directly to the pancreas after eating a meal play a critical role in normal blood sugar control, according to a report in the June 7, 2006, Cell Metabolism. Therefore, drugs

Monday, June 5, Marked the 25-year anniversary of the discovery of AIDS, and Rutgers researchers have just received new funds to support their pursuit of new ways to combat the virus. Patrick J. S

Frail elderly persons are a growing section of emergency and hospital care, and the traditional rules around consent and care may not be meeting this group's needs. In this guest editoria

As any expert will tell you, osteoporosis is complex and hard to predict. Most clinicians treat it only when they detect low bone density, viewing this as the definitive test. But machines to dete

Every year Utah children are seriously injured and killed when they're hit by a vehicle backing out of a driveway. But a child is up to 2 1/2 times more likely to be backed over by a minivan or tr

By recovering and sequencing intact DNA from an especially ancient Neandertal specimen, researchers have found evidence suggesting that the genetic diversity among Neandertals was higher than prev

Merck's experimental human papillomavirus vaccine Gardasil, which an FDA advisory committee la

Raloxifene and tamoxifen are both effective in reducing the risk of invasive breast cancer, but each has potential disease and quality of life side effects that women and their physicians will ne

Six days after a 6.3-magnitude earthquake hit the island of Java in Indonesia, the latest official figures for the number of wounded has doubled to just over 46,000, with more than 30,000 people s

Today was a day to be celebrated inthe fight against breast cancer. This morning, more than 40,000 runners andwalkers gathered on the National Mall for the 17th annual Susan G. KomenBreast Canc

The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) adopted positive opinions on initial marketing authorisation applications for:-- Competact (pioglitazone/metformin), from Takeda

African American smokers show greater brain activations in response to smoking cues, such as images of individuals smoking, than Caucasian smokers, according to researchers at the University of Mi

Using a clot buster drug normally reserved for treating patients during a heart attack, emergency room doctors were able to double the number of patients who could be revived from cardiac arrest

Common painkillers, known as NSAIDs, may raise the risk of having a heart attack or vascular event, say researchers who studied drug trials totalling 140,000 participants. It seems high doses of

A study demonstrating one of thefirst therapeutic applications to exploit microRNA for the treatment ofdiseases such as hemophilia will be presented on Saturday, June 3 at the9th Annual Meeting

U.S. employers and consumers are paying billions of extra dollars each year for medical care in hospitals and doctors' offices to offset underpayments from Medicare and Medicaid, according to a st

Two editorials and an opinion piece recently addressed the UNAIDS

A new study on fatigue experienced by patients after undergoing liver transplantation found that it is a major problem that does not tend to improve with the passage of time. Liver transplant pati

The AP/Houston Chronicle on Monday examined gender differences in the development of

The first U.S. multicenter,prospective clinical trial to investigate the use of minimally invasivestent placement to treat severe peripheral arterial disease (PAD) below theknee, has been clear