People with diabetes have the same high risk for heart attack or stroke or cardiovascular death as people who've already had a heart attack, researchers reported in Circulation: Journal of the

Insight into why females of some species undergo menopause while others do not has proven elusive despite an understanding of the biological mechanisms behind the change.However, new res

Research has shown that women find it harder than men to keep in shape as they get older, the Daily Mail reports. It says that women should eat lots of protein to try to compensate for th

Doctors are running out of treatments for today's trauma victims and critically ill patients because of infections due to drug resistant microbes - even after resorting to using medicines thrown o

The number of HIV cases recorded in Baltimore among people ages 20-29 increased by 10% annually between 2000 and 2006, and blacks account for 90% of new cases in the city, according to a report r

A critical moment has been reached in a 15-year debate in statehouses and in Congress over whether treatment for problems like depression, addiction and schizophrenia should get the same coverag

CV Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: CVTX) announced that preclinical research presented at the American College of Cardiology 57th Annual Scientific Session in Chicago showed that ranolazine increa

Seven new sites of common DNA variation have been discovered thatincrease the risk of psoriasis. Some of these variations, in one areaof the genome, link psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis to ot

Have you got diabetes and been in hospital in the past 12 months? As part of its work to help staff and organisations improve the care they provide to people with diabetes whilst they are

The smoking of the traditional 'shisha' water pipe is increasingly emerging as a significant health risk in Egypt, due to air-borne tuberculosis (TB) transmission from pipe sharing and uncontrolle

At this week's meeting of the American College of Cardiology in Chicago, GE Healthcare is launching a solution capable of assessing the coronary arteries and cardiovascular function automatically,

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Leukaemia Research is celebrating having raised £500,000 in record time, thanks to the support of Argos employees and customers. Just seven months into the year-long charity partnership, Argos ha

Too often the sacrifices of people working in global public health go unrecognized, but not in this case. The World Health Organization (WHO) welcomes the announcement that the Government of Japa

The American Medical Association (AMA) honors the more than 900,000 physicians in the U.S. on National Doctor's Day, March 30, for their commitment to the nation's health. On this day of tribute,

The academic leadership of the IMPROVE-IT trial recommended increasing the size of the patient population up to 18,000. Merck/Schering-Plough Pharmaceuticals, sponsor of the study, agreed with th

Blunt cerebrovascular injuries can be diagnosed using whole body 16 multi-detector CT (MDCT); there's no need for an additional neck MDCT angiography examination according to a recent study conduc

A large randomized trial will shed light on the ideal combination of medications for preventing unwanted blood clotting during and shortly after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Speci

The investigational antiplatelet drug prasugrel plus aspirin produced a marked and highly statistically significant reduction in the risk of coronary stent thrombosis (ST) - a major concern for

Philip J. Schneider, M.S., FASHP, clinical professor and director of the Latiolais Leadership Program at The Ohio State University College of Pharmacy, has been named the recipient of ASHP's 2008

The Penn State Prevention Research Center has received a $3.9 million state grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Health to study interventions to build resilience and reduce aggression in you

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is advising consumers not to purchase or use Blue Steel or Hero products marketed as dietary supplements throughout the United States because they are con

Medtronic of Canada Ltd. announced that Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE:MDT), has received regulatory approval from Health Canada's Therapeutic Products Directorate (TPD) for use of the Endeavor drug-elutin

This meeting will take a look at the development of RAF medical services over the past 90 years. Some of the topics to be covered include; the formation of the RAF medical services, the developing

The injection of uterine stem cells trigger growth of new brain cells in mice with Parkinson's disease, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in an abstract presented at the 2008 Society for

The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), one of the National Institutes of Health, is celebrating its 60th anniversary with three special symposia during the 37th Annual

Gleaning critical technical knowledge and building important international relationships is top of the agenda for rising Australian biotechnology star, DendriMed Research Director Dr Raisa Monteir

More than 1,300, or about one-sixth, of Mozambique's 9,000 teachers are dying annually of AIDS-related causes, lowering the quality of education in the country, Education and Culture Minister Air

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