Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is the leading reason given for death among infants one month to one year old. Studies have shown that sharing a bed with parents who smoke increases the risk o

Brazil's threat to break US drug companies' patents on antiretroviral drugs amounts to international thievery and extortion and threatens to disrupt, not enhance, the worldwide treatment of AID

Doctors are concerned that ritual circumcision practices performed on adolescent boys as a rite of passage in South Africa might be spreading HIV through the repeated use of unsterilized blades, t

Lawyers recently submitted final written arguments in a class-action lawsuit against Pennsylvania in which advocates for Medicaid beneficiaries with disabilities allege that access to dental care

Two newspapers on Wednesday examined the use of new communication technologies in the medical community. Summaries appear below.

The Commonwealth Government has allocated more than $100 million for leading medical research and clinical trials including leukaemia, kidney disease, HIV/AIDS, cancer, maternal health, arthritis

A disease treatment programme started three years ago by Imperial College London has now treated over ten million African children and adults for schistosomiasis and intestinal worm infections in

Program participants report better physical and mental health - A 25-year follow-up study of a comprehensive early health and education intervention program begun in the early 1970s shows

Researchers are making progress in giving physicians the ability totailor cancer treatment for patients, with the goal of improving chancesfor survival. Advances in deoxyribonucle

Studies show that early drug prevention must give young children the truth, the vital information and tools they need to make their own choice to keep away from drugs. In the development

The identification of a gene contributing to the proliferation of fibrous tissue in the liver has been reported in a study in the August issue of Nature Genetics. Chronic liver diseases lead to su

About 12 million people in Asia are at risk of becoming HIV-positive by 2010 unless prevention efforts are intensified,.. UNAIDS

President Bush on Thursday announced a $1.7 billion aid package for Africa aimed at fighting malaria and improving education and women's rights on the continent,..

Portugal's ruling Socialist Party on Tuesday introduced legislation that would allow a referendum to be held in 2005 to determine whether voters wish to loosen abortion restrictions in the country

Incremental exercise tests show that the peak work rate in patients who suffer from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and who have participated in a pulmonary rehabilitation program inc

The University of Iowa has received a five-year, $7.3 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to establish

A consortium of scientists at The Scripps Research Institute and several other California institutions has been awarded a $52.7 million grant by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences

An innovative North-South research collaboration has culminated in a study published in this week's Science that provides molecular clues to help develop new ways to treat or prevent East Coast fe

In a review of research to be published in the July issue of Trends In Pharmacological Sciences, Targacept compounds were reported to have a beneficial effect on cognition well after they were no

Scientists at the University of Michigan Medical School have discovered the biological equivalent of a grocery store bar code on the surface of primitive, blood-forming stem cells in mice. Called

The NHS suffers from an institutional gender bias that favours the progression of men over women according to health professionals. The NHS suffers from an institutional gender bias that

Although heart failure is often referred to as one of the new epidemics of cardiovascular disease in the 21st century, there have been few community-based studies that gauge the risks of heart f

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday announced that in the fall it will hear for the third time a case aimed at determining whether antiabortion protesters can be sued under a federal racketeering law,

Medical school does not prepare doctors for the reality of working life in the NHS, a survey published at the BMA's annual conference suggests today (Wednesday, 29 June, 2005). Six in te

In a message setting a very clear moral and ethical priority for the new Government as it chairs the G8 summit, the leader of the UK's doctors, BMA Chairman James Johnson today (Monday 27 June)

Parents whose children are born with a low birth weight run greater risk of dying of cardiovascular diseases. Even the fathers are at greater risk. These findings are published in a new report by

The Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative, a major effort to achieve scientific breakthroughs against diseases that kill millions of people each year in the world's poorest countries, toda

Joslin Diabetes Center has launched a new affiliation program designed to bring Joslin's world-class vision resources to local communities across the United States and beyond. The first Joslin Vi

Six million children could be saved if $5.1 billion in new resources for preventive and therapeutic interventions were provided each year, according to researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomber

When members of the public were asked in a BMA survey to prioritise where Government NHS funding should be directed, 'cleaner hospitals' came top out of a list of 10 options. The 'choice of where