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HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt today announced the release of Pandemic Influenza Planning: A Guide for Individuals and Families, a new tool to help Americans understand the threat of pandemic influe
World-leading scientific and medical publisher Elsevier is pleased to announce the formation of a partnership with the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics (ASENT). Under the new pa
A Comment in this week's issue of The Lancet reflects on last month's Countdown to 2015 conference on Tracking Progress in Child Survival. Two of the millennium development goals (MDGs) are critic
Saint Louis University researcher calls findings unexpected. A new Saint Louis University study shows there is some truth in the old cliché that describes a dog as man's best friend.
Seventy-eight percent of California adults believe the state's public schools should teach comprehensive sex education programs that include information on abstinence, condoms and contraception, w
New research suggests that years of repeated exposure to loud noise increases the risk of developing a non-cancerous tumor that could cause hearing loss. It doesn't matter if the noise c
A groundbreaking study led by Northwestern University researchers has demonstrated that a protein called alphaB-crystallin, which normally protects cells from stress damage, triggers events that m
The Seattle Post on Dec. 27, 2005, examined a unique HIV/AIDS prevention initiative that has trained more than 10,000 barbers in India to promote condom use, recognize the symptoms of HIV/AIDS a
Most sexually active teenage girls know relatively little about sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) until it is too late, according to a paper by Carnegie Mellon University researchers that will
Modern health information systems today are proprietary and often only serve one department making it impossible to easily share data across one facility, never mind across different facilities or
Despite the knowledge that ethnicity matters in cardiovascular disease, most studies of cardiovascular disease risk have not been designed to yield results that apply to different ethnic groups, r
Doctors in Canada are studying the effectiveness of permanent radiation seed implants following lumpectomy as an alternative to whole or partial breast irradiation for early-stage breast cancer pa
Restricting the time that schoolchildren spend in bed at night has a significantly negative effect on academic performance, according to a study of 74 children between 6 and 12 years of age. Resu
Children born with overly protruding ears should have them corrected after age five, when the ears reach full size, as the condition can adversely affect self-image. The growing percentag
The Christmas holidays are supposed to be a joyous time. But the first holiday season following the death of a loved one can be a time of great emotional stress and pain. Rodney Tucker, M
A Johns Hopkins researcher, with colleagues in Sweden and at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, suggests that the traditional view of cancer as a group of diseases with markedly different
The Society for Women's Health Research announced today the top five women's health stories of 2005, as selected by its scientific programs staff. From groundbreaking research on the X chromosome
Tokyo (JCN) - Japanese market researcher Fuji Keizai announced on December 27 that it has published a report on the disease prevention and health food market in Japan. The report estimate
Are you starting or about to start your internship/ foundation years or even junior doctor shadowing? Are you worried? Fear not, help is at hand with 100 Or So Ways To Make Your Hou
Dr Tarja Porkka-Heiskanen (Stenberg) MD, PhD, at the Institute of Biomedicine, University of Helsinki, coordinates a new EU-funded project, which addresses the mechanisms of sleep regulation. The
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Interplast Holland today began the provision of reconstructive surgery to civilians mutilated in the course of the conflict in northern Uganda. Many villagers ha
Eisai Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Tokyo, President and CEO Haruo Naito) and Eisai Inc. (Headquarters: Teaneck, NJ, Chairman and CEO Hajime Shimizu) announced today that a reformatted version of the s
Americans and their insurance plans spent $34 billion on the top 10 prescribed drugs when ranked by total expenditure in 2003 for drugs which treated high cholesterol, high blood pressure, ulcers,
A fictionalised account of the lives and experiences of home-visiting GPs from around the globe has just been published by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP). Secrets
The Glivec (imatinib) story begins with 2 Philadelphia researchers: Peter Nowell, MD, of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and David Hungerford, MD, of the Institute for Cancer Re
A sensor developed by a team of analytical chemists of the Voronezh Technological Academy allows you to determine the quality of meat, to learn whether it is fresh, and how long it has been kept.
West Nile virus (WNV) is a serious infection spreading across the world. Spread by mosquitoes, it can cause high fever, encephalitis, stupor, disorientation, coma, tremors, convulsions, muscle we
According to a source from the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry, a decision on the five nurses and a Palestinian facing the death sentence in Libya for allegedly infecting children with HIV virus could
Brain size matters for intellectual ability and bigger is better, McMaster University researchers have found. The study, led by neuroscientist Sandra Witelson, a professor in the Michael
Neuroscientists at Princeton University have developed a new way of tracking people's mental state as they think back to previous events - a process that has been described as mental time travel.