Hearings will begin on June 11th at the U.S. Federal Claims Court to determine if autism is linked to vaccines and their components, including the mercury-based preservative thimerosal. As the Autism Omnibus Proceeding approaches, parents of children diagnosed with autism are calling attention to the conflicts of interest they believe continue to threaten the safety of vaccines.
PG-13 films have lots of “happy violence,” say UCLA researchers. Borrowing from the late communications theorist George Gerbner, happy violence is that which is “cool, swift and painless.”
More New Yorkers are getting life-saving colonoscopies than ever before, the Health Department announced today, and people of all races and incomes are benefiting. The test ? which can detect, prevent, or cure colorectal cancer ? is generally recommended once every decade for people 50 and older, and earlier for those with a family history of the disease.
WHO is working closely with the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other international partners following the issue of health advisories in connection with an air passenger from the USA who travelled to Europe while affected by XDR-TB.
The TB traveler is currently in isolation at an Atlanta hospital, and he’s under the care of infectious disease specialists at this hospital.
HopeLab validated the benefits of their cancer-fighting video game by conducting a randomized, controlled trial with 375 male and female cancer patients aged 13 – 29, enrolled at 34 medical centers in the U.S., Canada and Australia.
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) confirms that a letter to the editor summarising additional Avandia cardiovascular safety data from several large-scale clinical trials was published online today in The Lancet.
An American man placed under the first government-ordered quarantine because of a dangerous form of drug-resistant tuberculosis infection (XDR-TB).
The Honourable Tony Clement, Canadian Health Minister, congratulated the new Chair and the rest of the Board of Directors of the new Canadian Partnership Against Cancer Corporation, as they held their second Board meeting.
A brown trout that died in Lake Michigan and washed ashore near the Kewaunee/ Algoma area has preliminarily tested positive for viral hemorrhagic septicemia, or VHS, a new fish disease that was found earlier this month in fish from the Lake Winnebago System.