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Recently, several medical organizations have published statements reflecting changes in their definitions and assessment of Metabolic Syndrome (MS). Because of concern that these statements woul
HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) today released a new publication, Next Steps After Your Diagnosis: Finding Information and Support, to help patients who have been diagnosed
About 18% of employers offer full pay during maternity leave -- a decrease from 27% in 1998 -- according to a survey
USAID will provide $3 million to care for terminally ill AIDS patients in Uganda, USAID Country Director Margo Ellis said on Wednesday, the
On Jan. 1, 2006, several categories of medications will be explicitly excluded from Medicare's new prescription drug benefit, including benzodiazepines, which are listed as an essential medicatio
Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle (D) on Tuesday announced an HHS waiver that will allow
Montgomery County, Md., Council President Tom Perez on Tuesday introduced a bill that would require the county to establish a program to allow about 12,500 Montgomery County, Md., employees and re
A group of former patients of the California Hospital Medical Center on Tuesday filed a class-action lawsuit against
In studies with mice, treatment with a new monoclonal antibody that targets immune system B cells has shown considerable promise for treating leukemias, autoimmune diseases and transplant rejectio
Health insurance deductibles for active salaried workers at General Motors will increase by 50% in 2006, the automaker announced Sunday, the
Some experts are criticizing CMS' plan to combat fraud in the new Medicare prescription drug benefit, saying the benefit is too complex to mo
The Food Standards Agency considers that the outbreak of avian (bird) flu in Turkey does not pose a food safety risk for UK consumers. For people, the risk of catching the disease comes
An estimated 22 million people across Great Britain are now trying to cut down the amount of salt they eat - an increase of nearly six million since September 2004, according to new research publi
Couples who use fertility awareness-based methods of family planning have sex just as often as couples who use other contraceptive methods -- they just time it differently, according to a new Geor
For the first time, stem cell researchers at the University of Minnesota have coaxed human embryonic stem cells to create cancer-killing cells in the laboratory, paving the way for future treatmen
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have demonstrated that star-shaped glial cells in the brain called astrocytes are directly involved in regulating communication bet
Altering the standard step-by-step procedure that takes women facing a mastectomy from diagnosis to surgery to reconstruction can improve the process and help in determining if immediate reconstru
A potential new treatment for stroke has taken a major step forward following promising results from the first clinical trial. Researchers at The University of Manchester have shown in la
In its response to the Sperm Egg and Embryo Donation system (SEED) guidance, published today (7 October) by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), the BMA broadly supports many a
Ensemble of usual sugars offers clues to controlling inflammation - A collaboration led by the Burnham Institute for Medical Research has found that an antibody which binds to an unusual
A research team led by scientists at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston has determined the structure of an enzyme that when defective causes an inherited disease that afflicts suffe
Professsor Dario Alessi of the MRC (Medical Research Council) Protein Phosphorylation Unit at the University of Dundee, Scotland is the 2005 winner of the EMBO Gold Medal. Alessi receives the awar
About 53% of physicians support nonprescription sales of the emergency contraceptive Plan B but 68% support a proposal requiring prescriptions for the drug for patients under age 16, according to
USA Today on Wednesday examined how female employers are less likely to reduce health benefits than male employers as costs continue to increase. According to entrepreneurship experts at the
The Bush administration has spent nearly three weeks blocking a bipartisan effort to pay for medical care for the impoverished victims of Hurricane Katrina, a
Roll Call on Tuesday examined a study released in September by the
The American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) is pleased to announce the launch of its all-new patient Web site located atr
Mitochondrial complex I deficiency is one of the most common defects in patients with mitochondrial disease. The deficiency results from a failure to assemble the enzyme properly, but the nature o
Burnham Institute for Medical Research announced its contribution to the newly funded Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence (CCNE) established at the University of California with funding fro
The UK Department of Health is today issuing the latest informationabout the numbers of known cases of Creutzfeldt Jakob disease. Thisincludes cases of variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (vCJD) -