On Monday, January_22, the Harold F. Scott Elementary School in Warwick experienced more than the usual number of absences and contacted the Rhode Island Department of Health.
Lap band surgery appears to be an effective procedure to combat obesity in adolescents, according to a new study conducted at NYU Medical Center.
Tackling health inequalities in Britain needs closer coordination between all major policy areas including health, education, housing, employment and taxation, according to the authors of a new Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) publication.
A major 20-year study by psychologists and dentists has cast doubt on the assumption that orthodontic treatment improves psychological well-being.
Limited progress has been made in improving the health and well-being of women worldwide over the past decade.
A new study by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) finds that polio vaccination in the United States has resulted in a net savings of over $180 billion.
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.
Children who get high levels of intellectual stimulation at home, such as books and educational games, had parents who rarely used physical punishment, a new University of Michigan study indicates.
Researchers open the way for improved study of hepatitis C virus by devising a novel virus culture system that allows replication of patient-isolated virus in nontransformed hepatocytes, instead of culture-adapted virus strains in transformed cell lines.
Rapid influenza testing is associated with reductions in the use of antibiotics in hospitalized adults, according to a report posted online today that will appear in the Feb_26, 2007, print issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.