Bayer HealthCare, a subsidiary of Bayer AG (NYSE: BAY), and Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ONXX) announced that Nexavar? (sorafenib) tablets significantly extended overall survival in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), or primary liver cancer versus those taking placebo by 44%.
An Indian HIV positive man is set to return home after being pardoned on humanitarian grounds by judicial authorities here from charges of assaulting a policeman.
Routine male circumcision “must be considered” in areas of Africa with high HIV prevalence because the procedure is a “source of hope that could eventually save many lives,” columnist Michael Gerson writes in a Washington Post opinion piece.
Hospital admissions are up again according to a report released today by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW).
Every year, tens of thousands of men and women from every county of Michigan and around the country turn to the University of Michigan Health System for advanced care for heart disease, blood vessel disorders and strokes. The number of visits for that care has nearly doubled in the last decade.
The Ministry of Health of Indonesia has announced a new case of human infection of H5N1 avian influenza.
Bird flu H5N1 strain of avian influenza was confirmed in a poultry worker in Vietnam, last week. The man has been hospitalized since last saturday and is recovering.
Women are much more interested in a man’s personality and looks than the size of his penis, but men can experience real anxiety even if they are average sized, according to a research review published in the June issue of the urology journal BJU International.
Directly observed antiretroviral therapy is a promising strategy to ensure that HIV-infected children in developing countries take life-saving medications, new research from The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University shows.
A new test for diagnosing TB offers a quick and simple alternative to existing three-day methods, according to research published today in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.