Children looked after by local authorities have higher levels of psychiatric disorder, educational difficulties and neuro-developmental disorders than children living in private households, a new study from researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s has found.
Expressing concern over the growing cases of organ transplantation in the developing world, World Health Organisation has said ??Transplant tourism” is on the rise because organ donations are not keeping up with growing demand, especially for kidneys.
HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt has announced more than $1.1 billion in funding to help states and territories provide care, medications and services for low-income individuals living with HIV/AIDS.
The Gerald P. Murphy Cancer Foundation announced the launch of the first randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled cancer prevention trial in pet dogs.
William Marler, a food safety advocate and attorney whose Seattle law firm, Marler Clark, has been contacted by three victims of an E. coli outbreak traced to a Lake Forest, California, Souplantation restaurant, called on Souplantation to pay the medical bills of all individuals who became ill with E. coli infections as part of the outbreak.
An American psychologist in Seattle has been sentenced to a year in prison for billing a program for military families for therapy never given.
An American Air Force veteran has filed a federal claim after an operation at a Veterans Administration hospital in which a healthy testicle was removed instead of a potentially cancerous one.
Dr Nicola Low, an epidemiologist at the University of Berne in Switzerland argues that claims about screening are not supported by rigorous research or practice.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is urgently reminding the public that contact with baby turtles can pose a serious health risk to infants, small children, and adults with impaired immune systems as they can be natural hosts to Salmonella, a group of bacteria that can cause severe illness and death.
As part of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) on-going initiative to ensure that all marketed U.S. drugs have required marketing approval, the agency announced that companies must stop manufacturing and distributing unapproved suppository drug products containing trimethobenzamide hydrochloride.