Unsafe sexual practices are common in people infected with HIV and in those at high risk of infection, warned two US epidemiological studies published this week in the American Journal of Public H

Canada's lone case of mad cow disease may have originated in the United States, according to a report issued Thursday by Canadian investigators, who have been unable to pinpoint the source of the

Two new studies published today confirm earlier findings that high-dose chemotherapy followed by a bone-marrow transplant is not an effective way to treat breast cancer.The Dutch and Ame

Though the spread of SARS has been stopped for now, health experts said Wednesday it was doubtful the disease could ever be completely wiped out, and the chief of the World Health Organization sai

Contact: Elizabeth Crowne-crown@northwestern.edu312-503-8928Northwestern UniversityNorthwestern University researchers have found that a protein normally made in the body i

Doctors who fight cancer want a stiff new tax on tobacco and tougher laws against secondhand smoke in public places as part of a strategy to save the 1 billion people expected to die this century

Contact: Sally Pobojewskipobo@umich.edu734-615-6912University of Michigan Health SystemANN ARBOR, MI - University of Michigan scientists have used gene therapy to grow new