Following a decision by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) rejecting the state?s efforts to expand health insurance to cover every uninsured child in the state, Governor Eliot Spitzer was joined by New York?s congressional delegation in calling on President Bush to roll back the action.
Indian Lok Sabha passed a bill that provides for pictorial warning on tobacco products with the option of displaying skull and cross bones on its packets.
Researchers have found surprising evidence that an antidepressant (citalopram) may perform as well as a commonly prescribed antipsychotic (risperidone) in the alleviation of severe agitation and psychotic symptoms of dementia. Researchers also found that the antidepressant was associated with “significantly lower” adverse side effects.
A new study finds that, compared to healthy women, breast cancer survivors reported more days of fatigue and more severe fatigue symptoms. The study, published in the October 15, 2007 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, found women who received both chemotherapy and radiotherapy reported the most severe and prolonged fatigue.
Patients are being put at risk because some hospital doctors are not always following warning procedures over known drug allergies, new research launched at the British Pharmaceutical Conference (BPC) in Manchester shows.
Nutrients taken from avocados are able to thwart oral cancer cells, killing some and preventing pre-cancerous cells from developing into actual cancers, according to researchers at Ohio State University.
New research led by researchers at Warwick Medical School at the University of Warwick reveals that women?s health is much more at risk from sleep deprivation than men?s.
A new BC Cancer Agency study shows that newer drug therapies available since the 1990s, in particular aromatase inhibitors, improve the survival of women with metastatic breast cancer in the general population.
Some artificial food colourings may stimulate hyperactivity in children, revealed by a UK government agency in Britain.
By guiding an enzyme down a new evolutionary pathway, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has created a new form of an enzyme capable of producing a range of potential new therapeutic agents with anti-cancer and antibiotic properties.