Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has set a Tuesday deadline for negotiators to come to an agreement on measures (

The House on Thursday approved a supplemental war funding package along with a domestic funding package that would delay implementation of six new Bush administration Medicaid regulations, the

European researchers have developed a computer system designed to give health care professionals access to a broader range of medical information.However the system, which was meant to al

In the course of the KiGGS study, almost 7000 boys and girls aged between 11 and 17 years were weighed and asked about their self-assessment, ranging from far too thin to far too fat. In addit

Measles, one of the most common contagious diseases, has been thought to enter the body through the surface of airways and lungs, like many other major viruses. Now, Mayo Clinic researchers and th

Dr Clive Hunt, Senior Lecturer in Nutrition, School of Applied Sciences, University of Huddersfield. Various aspects of food and health are in the media all the time, but there is quite a

The Minister for Health and Children, Mary Harney TD today (Friday 20th June) opened the first Joint All Ireland Conference between the Institute of Community Health Nursing, the Irish Practice Nu

The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation named 14 new Damon Runyon Fellows at its May 2008 Fellowship Award Committee review. The recipients of this prestigious, three-year award are outstandin

Enactment of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) of 2008 is a boon to individual patients and for genetic research, write Kathy Hudson, M.K. Holohan, and Francis Collins in the Ju

What causes a woman's eggs to deteriorate in quality with age, and can that be reversed?How does the ovary choose an egg -- out of a stash of roughly one million -- to release for ovulat

The Australian Medical Association today said that unnecessary paperwork was severely affecting the amount of time GPs are able to spend with their patients. As part of General Practic

ORLANDO, FL (UroToday.com) - Among 101 patients with a renal mass in a solitary kidney, the authors employed three forms of less invasive surgery: laparoscopic partial nephrectomy (36), cryoablati

New research has shown that 1 in 10 men experience erectile dysfunction (ED) and as many as 1 in 5 men suffer a loss of libido, as a result of work-related stress. These latest figures

Responding to the Department of Health's announcement that the Government and the pharmaceutical industry have made an agreement on some parts of the new Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme,

A 52-year-old man with advanced metastatic melanoma, a deadly form of skin cancer, had a complete remission after being infused with billions of clones of his own CD4+ T tumor killer cells that h

Today at Cardiostim 2008, Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) announced that all Vision 3D™ implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) and cardiac resynchronization therapy-defibrillators (CRT-

Australia's Victorian Premier John Brumby has announced a $100 million (AUD) initiative to build the world's largest life sciences supercomputer facility to assist in discovering cures and therapi

The Royal College of Nursing has made its mark in the history of Nottingham's two main hospitals by taking part in a novel 60th anniversary celebration of the NHS.Sixty people aged betwee

Despite changes over the last fifteen years in national accreditation guidelines making the religious and spiritual care of hospitalized patients a right, there is no evidence yet that this protec

On Tuesday, the American Medical Association voted to refer to its board the decision of whether to endorse legislation (

U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Thomas Donohue on Tuesday expressed skepticism about health care plans proposed by leading Democrats but

In vertebrates, the peripheral nervous system and the craniofacial skeleton develop from a specific set of cells, known as neural crest cells. In this report, researchers in the laborato

The tender decision made by the UK authorities choosing a two-type (16/18) HPV vaccine for their immunisation campaign means that the girls in this campaign will not benefit from the world's leadi

Despite the rhetoric that there is a worldwide shortage of anti snake venom, evidence suggests that there is overuse of the current resources, according to a new paper. In the concept paper, a mod

Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc., a worldwide leader in diagnostic imaging, has presented Phase I data relating to the safety and tolerability in human subjects of BMS747158, its novel fluorine 18-

Concerned by the growing numbers of people using stimulant medications such as methylphenidate (MP) - either legally or illegally - to improve attention and focus, researchers used positron emissi

Current diagnostic guides divide alcohol-use disorders into two categories: alcohol abuse/harmful use and alcohol dependence. Some researchers and clinicians believe this is insufficient, that the

Tercica, Inc. (NASDAQ: TRCA) announced the first results from the Increlex® Growth Forum Database (IGFD) Registry in two posters presented at the 90th annual meeting of the Endocrine Society i

1. Major New Class of Vomeronasal StimuliFrancesco Nodari, Fong-Fu Hsu, Xiaoyan Fu, Terrence F. Holekamp, Lung-Fa Kao, John Turk, and Timothy E. HolyNodari et al. have di

Obese people feel a culture of blame against them, which they say has been made worse by media reports about the health risks of obesity, a new study from Australia found. The results were prese