WELLINGTON, July 1 (Xinhua) -- The number of influenza A/H1N1 confirmed cases in New Zealand rose to 711 on Wednesday, up 58 from 653 on Tuesday, the Ministry of Health said.
ADELPHI, Md. - A federal advisory panel voted narrowly on Tuesday to recommend a ban on Percocet and Vicodin, two of the most popular prescription painkillers in the world, because of their effects on the liver.
July 1 (Bloomberg) -- Senator Edward M. Kennedy's committee will propose creating a government-backed alternative to private insurance designed to pay for itself after getting federal start-up money.
Researchers, led by cardiologists at Massachusetts General Hospital, reported yesterday that testing patients for a protein associated with inflammation may help predict the risk of heart attacks and strokes in certain cases but that ...
The Food and Drug Administration said yesterday that it had confirmed the presence of E. coli 0157, a deadly strain of bacteria, in samples of Nestlé Toll House refrigerated cookie dough produced at the company's plant ...
Wall Street Journal - Laura Yao - 7 hours ago
The nonprofit Institute of Medicine provided a road map Tuesday for a new US-backed effort to compare medical treatments and give doctors and patients better information to guide care for dozens of diseases and conditions.
Smokers are socked with $1 increase in the state cigarette tax starting Wednesday, three months after a 62-cent jump in the federal tax.
April is Sexually Transmitted Diseases Awareness Month. In the US alone there are 19 million new cases of STDs each year, according to the American Social Health Association.
CHICAGO, June 30 (Reuters) - Making better use of technology could reap savings of $332 billion across the US health care system over a decade, UnitedHealth Group Inc (UNH.
Shares of the Rockville-based vaccine maker Novavax surged more than 30 percent yesterday on news that the Spanish government plans to use its technology to protect people from the flu.
San Francisco Chronicle - 2 hours ago
Sea otters along the California coast are dying off faster than at any time since the late 1990s, a disturbing trend that experts say is partially due to human-caused water pollution, the US Geological Survey reported Tuesday.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Guy Boulton - 4 hours ago
The four community health centers in Milwaukee, which collectively provide care for more than 70000 people a year, will receive more than $3.5 million in grants from the economic recovery act passed in February.
The US congressional reauthorization of PEPFAR, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, in July, 2008, lifted a 15-year ban on HIV-positive foreign nationals from entering the United States.
BurlingtonFreePress.com - 1 hour ago
Breathing in the air in Chittenden and Rutland counties slightly increases the risk of developing cancer compared to the rest of Vermont, according to the government's latest snapshot of air pollution across the nation.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Plainview Milk Products Cooperative is voluntarily recalling a number of dairy products due to possible Salmonella contamination, but said on Monday there had been no reports of illness related to its product.
San Jose Mercury News - 11 hours ago
AP LOS ANGELES—Doctors at a Los Angeles-based hospital have injected a heart patient with specialized stem cells grown from his own heart tissue in an attempt to reverse scarring after a heart attack.
July 1 (Bloomberg) -- Sanofi-Aventis SA's three-day stock decline last week prompted the European Association for the Study of Diabetes to publish research on the French drugmaker's Lantus insulin a week ahead of schedule.
MarketWatch - 3 hours ago
TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) -- Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., the Jerusalem drugmaker, said on Wednesday that the US Food and Drug Administration cleared the company to market a generic version of Ortho McNeil Janssen's Ortho Tri-Cyclen Lo oral ...
McKnight's Long Term Care News - 28 minutes ago
More than 47000 elderly Americans experience a walker- or cane-related fall each year. That is an average of 129 falls per day, according to a recent release from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Forbes - 15 hours ago
TUESDAY, June 30 (HealthDay News) -- Women with high blood pressure, elevated glucose and other components of metabolic syndrome might be at increased risk for postmenopausal breast cancer, a new study suggests.
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - A protein known as a key indicator of inflammation in the body and thought to cause heart disease is not linked to develo...
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