Reducing the density of fast food outlets and improving walking tracks could help promote healthy behavior in local communities, according to a new University of Melbourne study.
Cardiovascular disease (heart disease, stroke and vascular disease) affects nearly one in five Australians and about 65% of those take medicines for their condition.
Conducted by the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, the research found that vacuum cleaning was an ineffective allergy avoidance measure because it removed dust mite allergen from carpets in an inconsistent and incomplete manner.
Asthmatx, Inc., a medical device company that has developed a catheter-based procedure for the treatment of asthma, announced today that positive results from the Research in Severe Asthma (RISA) Trial were reported today at the annual scientific assembly of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) by Neil Thomson, MD, Professor of Respiratory Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland.
A hand-foot-mouth outbreak that began in April in Linyi city of east China’s Shandong Province has hit 863 people, mostly children, but no new deaths have been reported, a local official said.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) knew nearly five years ago about the dangers associated with the diabetes drug Avandia, an internal FDA memo shows.
A gene that controls the flow of potassium into cells is required to maintain normal sleep in fruit flies, according to researchers at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH). Hyperkinetic (Hk) is the second gene identified by the SMPH group to have a profound effect on sleep in flies.
Each year, the parents of an estimated one in 20,000 newborns are shocked to learn their child has type 1 congenital myotonic dystrophy (CDM1), a progressive and crippling genetic disorder.
When actress Sally Field was diagnosed with osteoporosis in 2005, it was a disappointing development.
US President Bush’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is proving effective, according to Alec Mally, counselor to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations.