UT Southwestern Medical Center has joined a national clinical trial to identify the long-term health effects of West Nile virus infection and to learn more about the disease’s progression, symptoms and mortality.
MedImmune, Inc. (Nasdaq: MEDI) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) voted in favor of expanding the population for use of FluMist (Influenza Virus Vaccine Live, Intranasal) to include children under 5 years of age.
Women who receive aspirin during pregnancy are at lower risk of pre-eclampsia a pregnancy complication, revealed by researchers from Australia and the UK.
Technology licensed by Follica Inc. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine has been used to generate completely new hair follicles for the first time in normal adult mammals. The paper describing the experiment was published in the May 17th issue of the scientific journal Nature.
Many school children in the United States memorize President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, considered one of history’s most brilliant speeches and a model of brevity and persuasive rhetoric.
Up to 25,000 people may die needlessly each year due to the failure to prevent blood clots known as venous thromboembolisms (VTE) in UK hospitals, say experts in this week’s BMJ.
So-called ?functional foods? need to be systematically monitored because not enough is known about their long-term safety and effectiveness, say a group of scientists writing in today?s British Medical Journal.
New research reported today in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows daily, mild exercise – walking or bike riding – improves the fitness of post-menopausal women who are currently sedentary, overweight or obese.
Some ethnic minorities could be twice as likely as white and Native American people to prefer counseling and prayer to medication for treating depression, according to a national Internet survey.
Spending money to improve diabetes care at federally qualified community health centers is a sound investment, according to one of the first studies to examine the clinical and economic impact of quality improvement on diabetes care.