Engineers have found a way to pinpoint and identify the tiny iron oxide particles associated with Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases in the brain.The technique is likely t

Patients who volunteer to take part in clinical trials are currently being left without adequate legal protection in the event of injury, warns a senior doctor in this week's BMJ.Profes

On Thursday, February 23, 2006 the starting signal was given for a collaboration in tumor virology research between the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) and C

GenoMed (OTC Pink Sheets GMED), a Next Generation Disease Management company whose business is public health, announced today that its first multiple sclerosis (MS) patient has had no relapses for

While many urban children suffer from asthma, those who have high self-esteem and good problem-solving skills may be less likely to have their asthma symptoms interfere with school, a new study f

Officials for Tenet Healthcare on Tuesday announced a $7 million settlement of a lawsuit filed by the state of Florida over al

The group Feminists for Life, which opposes abortion, is siding with a former teacher at a Catholic school in Queens, N.Y., saying t

National and International members of the China seatbelt intervention Steering Committee will meet today in Beijing to discuss the progress of a leading project in the province of Guangzhou, which

Bruker Daltonik GmbH and the German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures (DSMZ) today announced a collaboration for the identification and classification of microorganisms from peptide a

The British Dental Association's (BDA) 2006 British Dental Conference and Exhibition, titled Making it work together, takes place from 18-20 May at Birmingham's International Conference Centre. Th

Warner Chilcott announced todaythat the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved its 24-day oralcontraceptive, Loestrin(R) 24 Fe (norethindrone acetate and ethinyl estradio

Ischemic stroke patientstreated in the Multi MERCI trial experienced blood flow restoration rates of69.4%. Additionally, one out of three ischemic stroke patients wasfunctionally independent at

The high price charged for Avastin, a drug that has proved moderately effective against

A Washington state bill proposing that companies with more than 5,000 employees contribute 9% of their payroll toward health benefits or face penalties failed to advance out of committee for a fu

Roche announced that safety data from AVANT, a trial to study different combination treatments for post-surgical adjuvant colon cancer, will be further reviewed. The review has been recom

GlaxoSmithKline(NYSE: GSK) today announced that the supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA)submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on December 15, 2005for Hycamtin(R) (topotec

The tumblers of life continue to click as Cornell University researchers have fabricated a set of nano-keys on the molecular scale to interact with receptors on cell membranes and trigger large

Warning signs that the boom in medicines research in the UK is under threat have been signalled today by the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI). The figures highlig

President Bush on Wednesday in a speech at Wendy's International headquarters in Dublin, Ohio, promoted his proposed expansion of h

A team from the Faculty of Medicine at Université Laval and the research centre at CHUQ (Centre hospitalier universitaire de Québec) has discovered a natural defence mechanism that the body deplo

Researchers have developed a mouse strain in which the abnormal activity of the dopamine machinery in a specific part of the brain causes cognitive and behavioral impairments mimicking those in h

Johns Hopkins researchers have announced the development of a Web-based, automated computer program that they say greatly simplifies the time-consuming and error-prone process of manually designi

An experiment designed to show how a usually innocuous bacterium regulates the expression of an unnecessary gene for green color has turned up a previously unrecognized phenomenon that could part

The Government of Kenya and WFP have announced that 3.5 million Kenyans are running out of food because of the complete failure of the short rains, nearly tripling the number Kenyans in need of em

BlackDoctor.Org is gearing up for a busy 2006 as African Americans - along with physicians, dentists and others in the healthcare community

To ensure that the public health workforce in Connecticut and beyond is able to mount a swift, coordinated response to disasters, acts of terrorism and disease outbreaks, the Department of Epidem

UC Irvine neurobiologist Frank LaFerla today was recognized as a Promising Work recipient of the 2005 MetLife Foundation Award for Medical Research in Alzheimer's disease. He is one of three re

The following is a guest opinion by Mark A. Piasio, M.D., M.B.A., President of the Pennsylvania Medical Society. Watching President Bush's State of the Union Address recently, I was remin

Researchers at the North West Lung Centre, run by The University of Manchester and based at Wythenshawe Hospital, have discovered that vacuum cleaners with 'high-efficiency particulate air' or HE

Avian influenza confirmed in wild swans in Italy: Italian authorities applying precautionary measuresThe Italian authorities today informed the European Commission of confirmed