House Ways and Means Committee Chair Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) on Thursday said the House budget reconciliation package will include provi

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on Thursday launched a commission that will seek to determine the effects of factors other than medical care an

House Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) on Thursday said Republicans will win on Medicare regardless of the Democratic response to a legislative proposal released earlier this month by the Bush adm

CMS has begun to collect additional data on private Medicare Advantage plans, acting CMS Administrator Kerry Weems said on Thursday at a House

China plans to examine how it might relax the country's one-child-per-family policy, Zhao Baige, vice minister of China's National Popu

A recent Article published in The Lancet suggeststhat the criteria for diagnosing diabetes mellitus could needreassessment. This conclusion comes from a study that looks at theconnectio

A side effect of economic prosperity may be an increased risk of the most common type of strokes, researchers from China report in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.

How do you sift through hundreds of billions of bits of information and make accurate inferences from such gargantuan sets of data? Brown University mathematician Charles Chip Lawrence and gradu

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center has announced that Ronald O. Perelman, chairman of MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings Inc., has made a $50 million gift to the Medical Center t

In recent years, light emitting diodes (LEDs) have begun to change the way we see the world. Now, a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute student has developed a new type of LED that could allow for th

Findings from a National Institute of Health (NIH) study indicate that rates of tobacco use during pregnancy, as well as exposure of pregnant women and their young children to secondhand smoke, ar

Many of the greatest inventions in modern medicine were developed by physicists who imported technologies such as X rays, nuclear magnetic resonance, ultrasound, particle accelerators and radiois

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), commonly known as lupus, can affect nearly any part of the body, including the joints, skin, kidneys, heart, nervous system, and brain. Along with joint pain, m

In 2002, Bruce Rittmann, PhD, director of the Biodesign Institute's Center for Environmental Biotechnology, received a patent for an innovative way to use nature to lend society a hand. He invent

A powerful air sterilization technology developed at the University at Buffalo has killed every biological agent with which it has been challenged, including airborne spores, viruses and bacteria

A chronic autoimmune disease, rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterized by persistent inflammation of the synovial membrane and progressive joint destruction. Beyond loss of mobility, sufferers f

Statins, the most effective treatment for lowering cholesterol, are widely used and have been demonstrated to be safe in large clinical trials. Although side effects are usually mild, more severe

An international team led by Physics and Chemistry teams from the Faculty of Science and Technology at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and directed by Professor Jose Javier Saiz Gar

Women with diabetes are seven times more likely to have a stillborn baby compared to other women.These findings will be presented next week at Diabetes UK's Annual Professional Conference

DOV Pharmaceutical, Inc. (OTCBB: DOVP) announced that it has initiated a Phase II clinical trial of DOV 21,947 in patients diagnosed with major depressive disorder. DOV 21,947 is DOV's lead tripl

Utilizing a technique that combines low temperature measurements and theoretical calculations, Hebrew University of Jerusalem scientists and others have revealed for the first time the electronic

Alpharma Inc. (NYSE: ALO), a global specialty pharmaceutical company, announced that a New Drug Application (NDA) has been submitted for EMBEDA™, a pharmacological abuse-deterrent, extended

The Library of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) has today launched myLibrary, a new, free online library for registered pharmacists. myLibrary enab

UT Southwestern Medical Center surgeons have removed a gallbladder through a unique operation requiring only a single incision in the bellybutton rather than the traditional four incisions in the

An area of the brain involved in the planning and production of spoken and signed language in humans plays a similar role in chimpanzee communication, researchers report online on February 28th in

Everyone has known for decades that smoking causes cancer, but until now no one really understood how cigarette smoke causes healthy lung cells to become cancerous. Researchers from the University

About 10 percent of adults report not getting enough rest or sleep every day in the past month, according to a new four-state study released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CD

A protein that helps lung cancer cells thrive appears to do so by blocking healthy cells' ability to fix themselves when radiation or chemicals, such as nicotine, damage their DNA, according to a

Lake Bloomington is a major source of drinking water for residents of Bloomington, IL, and has a history of nitrate concentrations that exceed safe levels. Because Lake Bloomington has a record of

A new website, http://www.medicalconditionsatschool.org.uk, is being launched at the Education Show by Asth