Should you leave your comfortable job for one that pays better but is less secure? Should you have a surgery that is likely to extend your life but poses some risk that you will not survive the operation?
What really happens after you place an order for a Big Mac or a Whopper with Cheese?
Children who live near a major highway are not only more likely to develop asthma or other respiratory diseases, but their lung development may also be stunted.
To mark National Non-Smoking Week, the Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Health, Canada, announced today that Canada’s New Government will contribute $158,000 to support the expansion of smoking cessation programs for smokers admitted to hospital.
In a newly published study Swiss researchers document that antiretroviral resistance testing in HIV infected patients with treatment failure not only leads to better health but also saves costs to society. This study will be published on January 24, 2007 in PLoS ONE, the International, peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication from the Public Library of Science (PLoS).
Patients with symptoms of depression who have coronary artery disease showed improvement of their symptoms with use of the drug citalopram, but adding interpersonal psychotherapy did not appear to be of benefit, according to a study in the January 24/31 issue of JAMA.
Recent advances in nanoscience and nanotechnology have open up myriad opportunities for applications and commercialization.
A major 20-year study by psychologists and dentists has cast doubt on the assumption that orthodontic treatment improves psychological well-being.
Scott Minick, longtime executive and board member of leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, has been elected as the new Chair of the Board of Directors for California Pacific Medical Center.
For the first time, scientists have discovered that cells passed from mother to child during pregnancy can differentiate into functioning islet beta cells that produce insulin in the child.