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Therapy for panic disorder that combines an evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) with medication may be more effective than the usual care offered to these patients in a primary car
A five point challenge to all political parties, setting out how to improve the NHS, is published today (Tuesday 8 March 2005) by the British MedicalAssociation. A vote to improve health takes
While many people mark their 50th birthday with a big celebration or a special trip, Sheila Ricketts instead decided to do something that would give her the comfort of knowing that she has many m
The Fiscal Year 2005 (FY05) Defense Appropriations Act provides $150 million to the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP). This program is administered by the US Army Medica
Senators Edward Kennedy, Tom Harkin, and Bill Frist - as well as Dr David Satcher, president of Morehouse School of Medicine and former U.S. Surgeon General - have agreed to give remarks during a
In a response to ongoing concerns about manufacturing quality, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Department of Justice today initiated seizures of Paxil CR and Avandamet tablets manu
More than 300 scientists, policy analysts, human rights and HIV/AIDS advocacy groups and advocates from 56 countries on Tuesday signed an open...
The Georgia Senate Health and Human Services Committee on Wednesday approved a bill... (HB 197) that wo
There has been recent media interest in community acquired MRSA (C-MRSA) but the (UK) Health Protection Agency are unaware of any link to gyms or healthclubs. Over the past three years, the Agenc
Despite our increasingly hectic lifestyles, nearly three quarters of Great Britain's population (72 per cent) are still taking time out to tuck into breakfast in the comfort of their homes. New s
The NHS has delivered substantial progress on the promises it made to tackle the biggest killer in England today - heart diseaseAt a conference of heart experts and patients today, Healt
Despite high expectations, telemedicine and telehealthcare systems, which enable doctors to interact with patients many miles away via video, digital imaging and electronic data transmission, hav
A fossil of a diminutive human nicknamed the Hobbit likely represents a previously unrecognized species of early humans, according to the results of a detailed comparison of the fossil's brain
USA - In a new analysis on the problems people with both Medicare and Medicaid will face when they transition from Medicaid to Medicare drug coverage in January 2006, the Medicare Rights Center r
University of Utah chemist leads effort funded by Defense Department - A University of Utah chemist will lead a new $3.5 million project to develop the next generation of computer simulat
The labels for the five antidepressants most commonly prescribed to children will begin to include black box warnings this month to advise consumers that the medications could cause suicidal ten
The mostly invisible issue of increasing long-term care costs has important implications for discussions about Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, NPR's...
Lung cancer patients who have never smoked are more likely than smokers to harbor one of two genetic mutations that researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have now linked to the disease.
A major new project from the UK Department of Health will celebrate the contribution made by people from the Caribbean Commonwealth in the early years of the NHS. The project will docume
Cancer survivor Sir Bobby Robson marked the official opening of a state-of-the-art research centre by meeting the doctors and scientists using its facilities to help patients. The former
Admissions to hospital for asthma in Northern Ireland remain significantly higher than the rest of the UK, says a report launched today by Asthma UK Northern Ireland. 'A Moving Picture -
22-nation synchronized immunization campaign to reach 100 million children as virus spreads to Ethiopia - A mass polio immunization drive starting today across Africa gained greater urgency from
Injuries from adverse drug events in the long-term care setting are more common than previously documented, and largely preventable, according to the findings of a study published today in The Am
1,400,000 women screened in England last year - New statistics published today show a big increase in the number of cancers detected by breast screening. In 2003/04 over 14% more cancers were det
Sixty-five percent of US residents support more federal regulation of prescription drug prices, and 51% support additional regulations on prescription drug advertisements, according to a...
Almost one-third of the members on the... FDA advisory committee that last week recommended the continued sale of COX-2 inhibitors have consulted
The complex and life-sustaining series of steps by which hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) give rise to all of the body's red and white blood cells and platelets has now been discovered to depend in
Surgeon General Richard Carmona on Monday advised pregnant women and women who might become pregnant to abstain from alcohol consumption to eliminate the chance of giving birth to an infant with
NHS Greater Glasgow has written to the parents of 18 children, between the ages of one and five, to ask them to contact their GP to make arrangements for their children to receive an additional v
The health care industry must agree to technical standards for electronic health records by this summer or the federal government likely will put out a mandate, National Health Information Techn