South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel on Wednesday in his fiscal year 2008 budget speech announced that the government will spend an additional $274 million by 2011 to almost double the nu

A simple approach to efforts to reduce health care costs that could save consumers billions of dollars annually is stopping pharmaceutical companies from colluding with competitors to keep l

Intelligent InSites announced a major new release of its flagship real-time location software, the InSites Enterprise Visibility Platform(TM). The Spring 2008 release will include advanced locatio

With a deep understanding of healthcare workflow and more than a century of experience as a global medical publisher, Elsevier is broadening its efforts to provide interactive clinical reference a

The New York Times on Saturday examined how a fee-for

The Baltimore Sun on Saturday examined concerns about the number of patients who

The health proposals of Democratic presidential candidates Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) and

A new study by researchers in the US found that people with advanced dementia are frequently given antibiotics toward the end of life, and has thrown into question whether this practice should b

The Chicago Tribune on Thursday examined the reaction of some women who have

Some conservatives, including James Dobson, have expressed concern about who Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) might nominate to judicial posts after his participation in the Gang of 14 in 2005, the

On Thursday, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released controversial proposed rule changes that the agency said would gran

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About 35 percent of the world's population is at risk of contracting deadly malaria, but many people are at a lower risk than previously thought, raising hope that the disease could be seriously

Aris Global, a leading provider of software solutions for the life sciences industry, announced at Clinical Trials Congress the release of agClinical™ and agClinical NW™, two comprehen

Why do nearly 1 million people taking cholesterol-lowering statins often experience muscle cramps? Why is it that in the rare case when a diabetic takes medication for intestinal worms, his gluco

Researchers at the University of Maryland at College Park have discovered that Normal Human Bronchial Epithelial (NHBE) cells cultured in medium with elevated zinc level, at the high end of plasma

Innovative gene research involving scientists at UQ's

Attorney General Martha Coakley's Office, along with the attorneys general of 33 other states and the District of Columbia, entered into a $5.9 million settlement with New Jersey-based Barr Pharm

Women's lives matter. Every year at this time, we celebrate the accomplishments of women around the world. While there have been many great advancements, we can not lose sight of the struggles of

A new US study found that women taking combined hormone therapy had an increased risk of otherwise avoidable abnormal mammograms and breast biopsies that compromised the ability of these two me

An article in the March issue of Anesthesiologyreports that obese children are more likely to have problems duringsurgery. Specifically, obese children are more prone to problems withai

A Columbia University Medical Center research team has discovered a new gene involved in determining hair texture in humans. The team's genetic analysis demonstrated that mutations in a gene, know

Americans who live with spinal cord injury do not appear to be at greater risk of developing carbohydrate and lipid disorders such as insulin resistance, diabetes, impaired glucose tolerance, and

The mothers of some autistic children may have made antibodies against their fetuses' brain tissue during pregnancy that crossed the placenta and caused changes that led to autism, suggests resear

Written handouts and computerized presentations with audiovisualcomponents can both be beneficial when educating adolescents aboutacne, as published in a report in February of 2008 in the Archi

In a new study commissioned by the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) and released today, men and women ages 18-24 had the highest approval rating for cosmetic surgery.

Idenix Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: IDIX), a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery and development of drugs for the treatment of human viral and other infectious diseases, annou

For years, getting a lot of calcium has been portrayed as one of the best things you could do to prevent osteoporosis and related bone fractures. Small study results supported this view. But w

Lung Cancer Alliance (LCA) cautioned that recently released cancer statistics indicate that lung cancer continues to kill more people each year than all the other major cancers combined.

As a parent, you often take extra health precautions to protect your child from winter illnesses such as colds and the flu, but the National Meningitis Association (NMA) wants to be sure you