Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg filed a joint lawsuit against the maker of Vioxx for misrepresenting the dangers the drug posed to its users.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and NASA have entered into an agreement that helps American scientists utilize the International Space Station to answer questions about human health and diseases.
The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions and the American College of Cardiology announced today that they will hold a unified interventional cardiology meeting in Chicago, March 29-April 1, 2008. The meeting will be known as “The SCAI Annual Scientific Sessions in Partnership with ACC i2 Summit.” It will be held concomitantly with the ACC Annual Scientific Session.
HIV infection is on the rise among young men who have sex with men (MSM) in New York City, according to preliminary data from the Health Department. New HIV diagnoses among MSM under age 30 have increased by 33% during the past six years, the agency reported today, from 374 in 2001 to almost 500 in 2006.
The number of serious adverse drug events reported to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) more than doubled between 1998 and 2005, as did deaths associated with adverse drug events, according to a report in the September 10 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
British Columbia recognizes International FASD (Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder) Day and September as FASD Prevention and Support Month, announced Children and Family Development Minister Tom Christensen.
Women who are obese, have type 2 diabetes or a family history of type 2 diabetes could one day have more successful pregnancies because of a study at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
How environmental stress contributes to cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes is under study at the Medical College of Georgia. The study, which follows 523 pairs of twins, is funded by a $1.7 million continuation grant from the National Institutes of Health.
The results of a clinical trial, published in late August in the Journal of Pediatrics, indicates that, when used as part of routine therapy, high-dose ibuprofen is safe and effective in slowing down lung disease in children with cystic fibrosis (CF).
A University of Iowa professor is making a case for a new eating disorder she calls purging disorder. The disorder is similar to bulimia nervosa in that both syndromes involve eating, then trying to compensate for the calories.