A severe lack of healthcare workers is compromising both quality and availability of HIV/AIDS care in southern Africa, warned international medical relief organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF).
Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and McLean Hospital have found that practicing yoga may elevate brain gamma-aminobutyric (GABA) levels, the brain?s primary inhibitory neurotransmitter.
Hillary Clinton announced a 7-step strategy to control health care costs and create a framework to provide affordable, quality coverage to all Americans in a major policy address at George Washington University.
Abbott’s Ross Products Division announced a voluntary nationwide recall of three lots of two-ounce bottles of Similac Special Care 24 Cal / fl. oz. Ready-to-Feed (RTF) Premature Infant Formula with Iron, a highly specialized liquid ready-to-feed formula used only for premature infants after discharge from the hospital.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is alerting health care professionals and their patients who wear soft contact lenses about a voluntary recall of Complete MoisturePlus Multi Purpose Solution manufactured by Advanced Medical Optics of Santa Ana, Ca.
Researchers have deciphered how neurotransmitter transporter proteins recognise their targets, a finding which may provide clues for better design of drugs used to treat depression.
Following Judicial Review findings, Secretary of State for Health, Patricia Hewitt announced that job offers for junior doctors applying for specialist recruitment will start today. Speaking in the House of Commons she said:
The Department of Health and the Department for Education and Skills today announced arrangements for the management of NHS training budgets by Strategic Health Authorities in England in 2007/8.
MTAS Judicial Review outcome – Judicial Review finds in favour of Department of Health. Health Minister, Lord Hunt said:
The ethics and philosophy of marketing will come under the spotlight at a new public seminar being hosted at the University of Adelaide.