As the 2008 national presidential election heats up, one topic remains a voter hot button and a constant debate issue - the health care crisis in America. Political affiliations aside, there is on

Pharmacists who have significantly improved outcomes for patients will share their strategies during an interactive information session at ASHP's upcoming Summer Meeting, June 8-11 in Seattle.

The documentary film Life for a Child, produced by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and Eli Lilly and Company to raise awareness of the devastating impact of diabetes in the developing

Amkor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. reports that all clinical activities of its Phase I, double-blinded, randomized, placebo-controlled ascending intravenous (IV) single dose (both loading and maintenance

Louise Silverton, Deputy General Secretary of The Royal College of Midwives, said: We do empathise with mothers who may want a baby of a particular sex. However, having a good diet before concept

The American Medical Association (AMA) announced that it will begin enforcement of the national Blue Cross and Blue Shield (BCBS) settlement as a signatory medical society to the agreement. The A

The Chicago Tribune recently profiled the

In the 2009 fiscal year state budget, the Maryland General Assembly included millions of dollars in funding for initiatives that will expand dental care to more children enrolled in Medicaid, the

A new fundamental mechanism of how tumour cells communicate has just been discovered by the team of Dr. Janusz Rak at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) in collab

A new nationwide clinician survey provides the first comprehensive look at what is community care or 'treatment as usual' for nonepileptic seizures (NES), laying the groundwork for clinical trials

More than 1,800 people perished in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 - the largest hurricane death toll in the United States since 1928. For the most vulnerable - the urban poor with li

The MS Society has launched this week's MS Week 2008 with a series of new adverts featuring images and words of people with multiple sclerosis (MS).The four new adverts encourage peopl

Northern Ireland's doctors are again to receive a below inflation pay award; indeed many will in effect receive a pay cut. Dr Brian Patterson, Chairman of the BMA's NI Council, said that this is v

Frank Batsch was a smoker for more than 25 years. Although he quit nearly 40 years ago, he has been suffering for more than a decade from throat cancer that has nearly robbed him of his voice and

Genentech, Inc. (NYSE: DNA) and Biogen Idec, Inc. (Nasdaq: BIIB) announced that a Phase II/III study of Rituxan® (rituximab) for primary-progressive multiple sclerosis (PPMS) did not meet its

A team of scientists from the Universite de Montreal and the Montreal Heart Institute Research Centre, led by Dr. Jean-Claude Tardif, has completed an important study that show how a new type of m

Two inventions created by University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers have won $50,000 awards from the Texas Ignition Fund, a new program designed to spur the commercialization of

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley (USA) have now developed a new strategy for the formation of hybrid materials from synthetic polymers and proteins. They have thus been able t

The Alliance for Lupus Research (ALR) recently announced that it will award nearly $7 million to researchers around the world. The ALR is very proud to announce, during National Minority Health M

Media outlets in Ethiopia should be more sensitive when reporting on or about people living with HIV/AIDS because some of the language used has been improper, Sonya De Masi, resident adviser at

Are We Heading Toward Socialized Medicine? Urban Institute:

Edwards Lifesciences Corporation (NYSE: EW), the world leader in the science of heart valves, announced that yesterday the first patients were treated in a United States feasibility study usi

Rawcreation Ltd, the UK's leading raw food company, has announced the release of the world's first ever superfood recipe book; 'Raw Magic' by Kate Magic Wood. Containing raw superfood recipes crea

Health professionals at the heart of ground breaking initiative to improve UK's eye health. Health professionals have joined professionals from the voluntary sector, social care and gover

Recent studies have found that insects, despite their small brains, can learn about their environment through interaction with others. However, the possibility that such learning might ex

The Royal North Shore Hospital (RNSH) inquiry may have grabbed media headlines, but hospital clinicians are sceptical that its recommendations will have any positive impact on the NSW health syste

Nearly 20 percent of military service members who have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan -- 300,000 in all -- report symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder or major depression, yet only sligh

Typing on a keyboard or scribbling on paper may be similar activities, but there is a significant difference in how the body moves, according to new motor development research. In lang

Parents are more likely to punish their teen's risky behavior when there are younger kids in the family, driven by a desire to set a strict example for these siblings, says new game theory researc

Adding capecitabine, a drug that inhibits DNA synthesis and slows the growth of tumour tissue, to docetaxel, in patients with early breast cancer, leads to more toxicities and does not improve the