Researchers at Perth's Telethon Institute for Child Health Research have found that girls and young women with Rett syndrome are nearly four times more likely to suffer a fracture.The fi

t will take more than 'awareness' to change the numbers on the gap in mortality between black and white infants, a

A group called Haitian Women of Miami is working to lower the rate of cervical cancer among Florida's

Central Michigan University: Under a partnership announced this week, health professions students from the school will spend part of their traini

The Kaiser Family Foundation hosts a live webcast,

Human Rights Watch in an article published last week in Globalization and Health said that the United Nations and its member countries

India plans to launch a program to manufacture and distribute low-cost female condoms in an effort to curb the spread of HIV among women, the

The Global Health Workforce Alliance on Wednesday at the close of its inaugural conference in Kampala, Uganda, released the

POZ in its March issue published two articles on National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day and HI

HHS recently awarded New York City more than $102 million in funding from the Ryan White Pr

Summaries of developments related to medical malpractice in Mississippi, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia appear below.Mississippi: The Mississippi Supreme

Several newspapers recently published articles examining how proposed Medicaid rule changes

About 15% to 20% of U.S. soldiers in Iraq have signs of depression or post-traumatic stress disorder, and about 30% of soldiers on their third or fourth tours have experienced emotional illnesses

Three of the five largest U.S. health insurers have higher unfavorable ratings than favorable ratings, according to a survey of hospital executives released on Thursday, the

The Medicare trigger provision does not look at the whole picture, according to health experts speaking Thursday at a forum held by the Kaiser Fami

UNC Health Care on Saturday began asking patients at its affiliated hospitals and physician clinics to pay up front for their share medic

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo (D) on Thursday said he issued new subpoenas to several health insurers as part of an ongoing fraud investigation, the

A 65-year-old couple who plans to retire this year will need estimated savings of $225,000 to cover health care costs during retirement, a 4.7% increase from last year, according to a study relea

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday by voice vote approved a bill (

Democratic and Republican Senate Finance Committee members who also serve as conferees on the farm bill have agreed on a $12 billion package

Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus (D-Mont.) on Tuesday said he is sponsoring legislation that would allow American Indian tribes to

The Senate Budget Committee on Thursday voted 12-10 along party lines to pass a $3 trillion fiscal year 2009 budget resolution that woul

A new blood test could enable doctors to rule out tuberculosis (TB) infection within days rather than weeks, according to a new study published this week in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine

By setting an alimentary desensitization protocol against milk and egg proteins, the medical team of the Pediatric Clinic of the University of Trieste, located at the Institute of Child Health Bur

The discovery of the brain's so called melanocortin system and its central role in controlling appetite has paved the way for entirely new possibilities for treating obesity and anorexia. In the l

Smokers trying to quit in the future could do it with the help of cannabis based medicines, according to research from The University of Nottingham.Teams of pharmacologists, studying the

Researchers from the Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health from the University of Granada have carried out a study with patients over 60. The main conclusion they have come to is tha

The foot is the part of the body critical for maintaining function, balance and coordination while walking. However, thousands of Americans step out of bed every morning with an excruciating throb

Soccer, football, baseball, tennis, gymnastics. Today the number of activities available to the young athlete serves up a smorgasbord of choices. College-bound teenagers in the United States and

A Medical University of South Carolina's (MUSC) Department of Family Medicine study concluded that people who began moderately consuming alcohol in middle-age experience a quick benefit of lower r