Although most religious traditions call on the faithful to serve the poor, a large cross-sectional survey of US physicians found that physicians who are more religious are slightly less likely to practice medicine among the underserved than physicians with no religious affiliation.
Infants whose mothers smoke during pregnancy have substantially higher blood pressures in their first months of life, Dutch researchers reported in Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Service providers have been secured to begin the interim delivery of mental health and child and family development programs currently operated by the Nanaimo Family Life Association.
The following summarizes GlaxoSmithKline?s [NYSE: GSK] presentation of data on Avandia? (rosiglitazone maleate) to an Advisory Committee of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on July 30, 2007.
The development of the first vaccine for the prevention of cancer came 30 years after Harald zur Hausen first hypothesized that human papilloma virus (HPV) might be associated with cervical cancer.
Drinking a daily pint of beer or a large glass of wine increases your risk of bowel cancer by around 10 per cent ? according to a new report by Cancer Research UK.
The World Health Organization (WHO) is releasing the first ever report highlighting children’s special susceptibility to harmful chemical exposures at different periods of their growth.
Weather conditions permitting, spraying to control adult mosquito populations will be conducted during the evening hours on Monday, July_30, in Springettsbury and Lower Windsor townships, York County.
This is an analysis of existing data that has been previously published (online in Diabetes Care, 29 May 2007) and provides no new information on the risk of heart failure associated with the thiazolinediones (TZD) class.
The Government of Canada is reminding consumers about certain chili products recalled from Wal-Mart stores on July_22, 2007 due to potential serious health risks.