Oglala Sioux Tribe President Cecelia Fire Thunder recently said she hopes to establish a clinic that provides abortion services on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation -- which covers millions of ac

The Wall Street Journal on Thursday examined how a steady increase in federal funding has propelled support for sex education programs that promote abstinence until marriage and

A Duke University engineering group is doing pioneering work at very diminutive dimensions. Their basic studies could lead to genetically engineered proteins that can form erasable chemical detec

An innovative new study explains, for the first time, the failure of previous attempts to vaccinate against the four known Dengue viruses, and it suggests a very simple solution - injecting the f

GlaxoSmithKline on Tuesday agreed to pay $14 million to states to settle allegations that the company blocked generic versions of its antidepress

Most emergency department patients have health insurance and regular primary care physicians, according to a study published on Wednesday by the

CMS is developing a program to help control Medicaid fraud at both federal and state levels that likely will be ready within the next six wee

The U.S. is working with the Southern African Customs Union to negotiate a free trade agreement that could

An increasing number of healthcare services are being offered across mobileand wireless networks. The healthcare providers' desire to cut costs, andthe arrival of a new generation of mobile ehea

The use of antimicrobials in the home is not necessary, according to new recommendations from the Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS). Handwashing, using plain soap and water, is still the

The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) will present its Summer Eye Research Conference (SERC), Toward the Prevention of Age-related Macular Degeneration July 9-12, 2006

Stem cells can repair damaged spinal tissue and help restore function in rats with spinal cord injuries, according to a new study. The findings may eventually lead to insights that result in new

The Department of Defense has notified TRICARE contractors that increases in he

According to new research, the combination of tenofovir with emtricitabine - under the trade name Truvada - can protect monkeys from getting the AIDS virus. The research was carried out by the Cen

This evolutionary conversion provides a modern-day snapshot of how life as we understand it may have first evolved out of the earliest primordial mix of RNA-like molecules-sometimes referred to

A bone-marrow-based protein that guides the growth of new blood vessels is also present and active in hearts endangered by clots, a team of researchers at the Weill Medical College of Cornell Univ

Researchers have developed custom nanoparticles that show promise of providing a more targeted and effective delivery of anticancer drugs than conventional medications or any of the earlier atte

Grape seed extract lowered the blood pressure of patients who participated in a UC Davis study of the benefits of the supplement on people with high blood pressure. Conducted by UC Davis

The children of men with stressful jobs, particularly jobs in which they have low control over their work and low psychological demand, are at higher risk of attempting suicide than others. A stud

More than 79,000 adults die each year as a result of passive smoking in the 25 countries of the European Union, according to statistics published today by the Smoke Free Partnership, a new strateg

New data presented today atthe National Hispanic Medical Association (NHMA) annual meeting showed thatAstraZeneca's CRESTOR(R) (rosuvastatin calcium) at 10 and 20 mg reduced LDL-Cor bad chole

The BMA on 25 March 2006 took the opportunity to remind the country of the health benefits of smoke free legislation. It claimed that the introduction of smoke free enclosed public places this wee

New anticancer drugs are usually developed specially for the job, but occasionally they are borrowed from another field of medicine, and applied speculatively in cancer. Tamoxifen was designed as

An article published in the latest issue of Family Relations describes a new therapy program for women with young children and substance abuse problems. The Mothers' and Toddlers' Program (MTP) b

Every day in hospitals around the country, thousands of patients undergo CT, MRI, X-ray and other kinds of scans, producing detailed images of their bodies. Specially trained doctors read those

The most common length of pregnancy in the United States is now 39 weeks, a week shorter than the traditional definition of a full-term pregnancy. This shift occurred between 1992 and 2002, accor

Providing access to basic medical care for everyone is easy for a country as rich as the U.S. -- if we don't insist on doing it through the structure of the welfare state, which as we know it

Adults with full-time jobs make up about 33% of Colorado's uninsured population, according to a Colorado Health Institute rep

CMS on Monday posted a statement on its Web site saying it will automatically enroll an additional 1.2 million beneficiaries in t

In testimony today, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) told the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that more research is needed in the area of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADH