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West Virginia University earlier this month joined Fairmont State University,
US Senate Finance Committee Chair Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on Thursday said he was discussing a scaled-back version of legislation that would temporarily provide Medicaid benefits to all evacuees o
Scientists in Japan have developed a headband (Kokoro-Gatari, meaning 'mind talk') which severely paralysed people can use to communicate. Severely paralysed people are not capable of the most ba
The BMA in Scotland has urged the Scottish Parliament Health Committee to consider introducing a system of presumed consent for organ donation. The call comes as the BMA prepares to give evidence
GenoMed announced today that the course of action announced recently by President Bush to combat avian influenza is likely to be an expensive mistake, and that the company has a safe, low-cost alt
Nearly half (44 percent) of homecare pharmacies will stop providing home inhalation drug therapy to older and disabled Americans who need it if there is a substantial cut to the Medicare dispensin
Ortho-McNeil Neurologics, Inc., is launching an educational campaign to alert health care professionals to the potential for medication errors between its product, TOPAMAX(R) (topiramate) tablets
Independent research papers from Dr. Peter Becker (Munich, Germany) and Dr. Mitzi Kuroda (Boston, MA) in the October 1 issue of Genes & Development delineate the mechanism of X-chromosome dosage c
New Studies on Bone Marrow Failure Diseases Presented at Scientific Symposium Oct. 18-19 The latest advances in aplastic anemia, myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuri
Pharmacists and GPs are urged to get involved in Macmillan Cancer Relief and The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation's campaign for the UK's biggest cancer killer and help save lives. Lung
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) today announced the award of $92.5 million to seven states over five years for Mental Health Transformation State Incentive G
Myriad researchers, investigating the genetic differences between DNAsamples from approximately 200 individuals with early-onset obesity and asimilar number of normal weight subjects, found a st
Massachusetts General Hospital has launched a national quarterly magazine that explores the latest developments in biomedical research, promising clinical applications and health policy. The magaz
A community-level intervention program aimed at young adolescents delays early intercourse, increases condom use and reduces the type of risky sexual behavior that can result in sexually transmitt
A survey of poultry workers in western North Carolina reveals high rates of injuries, as well as significant differences among poultry companies in numbers of injuries and how workers view company
Older women who have smoked for 11 or more pack years - the lifetime equivalent of a pack a day for at least 11 years - face a 30 percent to 40 percent increased risk of developing breast cancer
New research shows that levels of C-reactive protein (CRP), produced by the liver and not at the lesion site, correlate with the degree of atherosclerosis. The paper by Sun et al., C-reactive pro
Fever of unknown origin might be a marker of occult cancer, according to research published online today by THE LANCET ONCOLOGY. Fever of unknown origin is characterised by a fever of mor
The Bush administration on Tuesday awarded a contract worth up to $77 million to help create a supply system that will speed the delivery of HIV/AIDS-related drugs in Africa, the
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Senators on Monday blocked a vote on a bipartisan bill (S 1716) that would provide federally funded Medicaid covera
This systematic review finds insufficient evidence to support the use of metformin, a drug used for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and polycystic ovary syndrome, as treatment of overweight or ob
Medics at The University of Manchester have discovered a way to treat Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) using hypnotherapy. Up to eight million people in Britain suffer from IBS, with sympto
Women ages 15 to 24 in South Africa are substantially more likely to be HIV-positive than their male counterparts, according to a study published in the Sept. 23 issue of the journal
About 30,000 fewer Medicare beneficiaries received care in inpatient rehabilitation facilities in the first year of implementation of the 75% rule, which determines whether hospitals qualify as
Ten companies have been approved to offer stand-alone prescription drug plans through Medicare on a nationwide basis, and Medicare beneficiaries in all regions of the U.S. will have their choice o
Vice President Dick Cheney's aneurysm surgery was successful, a spokesperson at the George Washington University Hospital said. The operation lasted six hours. He had surgery for aneurysms behin
A pulsing heart cell is giving Oregon Health & Science University researchers insight into how it sends and receives signals, and that's providing clues into how heart disease and other disorders
The American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday launched a nationwide campaign urging officials in 18 states to reject teaching abstinence-only-until-marriage sex education curricula in their sc
FDA on Monday announced it has granted approval for four forms of the generic antiretroviral drug zidovudine to be sold in the U.S., after GlaxoSmithK