Human beings are directly responsible for more than 110,000 chemical substances which have been generated since the Industrial Revolution. Every year, we “invent” more than 2,000 new substances, most of them contaminants, which are emitted into the environment and which are consequently present in food, air, soil and water.
Confronted with the same hypothetical scenarios of traumatic brain injuries to children, pediatricians and pathologists were unable to agree half the time whether the deaths should be investigated as potential child abuse, researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine found.
The Interactive Autism Network (IAN)?the first national online autism registry spearheaded by the Kennedy Krieger Institute?has registered an unprecedented number of individuals and families living with autism.
The efforts of the Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative expanded in a new direction with the opening of a state-of-the-art laboratory in partnership with and located at the Stefan S. Nicolau Institute of Virology in Bucharest, Romania.
Women should not drink alcohol while pregnant or planning to become pregnant, the Royal Australasian College of Physicians was told in Melbourne.
The Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Health, congratulated three recipients of the Award of Excellence in Nursing for nurses working in First Nations and Inuit communities. The ceremony, held during National Nursing Week, took place at the Government Conference Centre in Ottawa.
Fatigue is one of the most common and distressing symptoms cancer patients experience during chemotherapy and radiation treatment, but it’s difficult for health care professionals to accurately assess its severity.
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy have received a $1.7 million five-year federal grant to develop a new approach to treat brain tumors.
Spain is below the average European rate for child asthma, according to research undertaken by the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC).
Derek Lamar Fisher is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Utah Jazz of the NBA. Last week in Salt Lake City, an advanced case of retinoblastoma was diagnosed in Fisher?s 10-month-old daughter, Tatum. Removing the eye is the most common way to remove the tumor.