Researchers at the 27th Annual Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) meeting announced today that high-dose progesterone treatment helped at-risk pregnant women avoid premature delivery.
The first over-the-counter weight loss pill won approval from US FDA health officials. Dieters got a new tool to help them take off the extra pounds.
Physicians who treat a blood disorder called idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), characterized by easy bruising and excessive bleeding, now have a new tool to help them provide the best care for patients with this disease.
More than 7,000 deaths and 27,000 cardiovascular events, such as heart attacks, can be avoided over the next five years by modernising the prevention and treatment of coronary heart disease (CHD), the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) said.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today cleared for marketing a test that determines the likelihood of breast cancer returning within five to 10 years after a woman’s initial cancer.
Two new vitamin D studies using a sophisticated form of analysis called meta-analysis, in which data from multiple reports is combined, have revealed new prescriptions for possibly preventing up to half of the cases of breast cancer and two-thirds of the cases of colorectal cancer in the United States.
An erythromycin-producing E. coli recombinant strain with an antibiotic-overproducing mutation in the mycarose biosynthesis pathway produced second-generation mutants capable of directed biosynthesis of enhanced precursor macrolide antibiotics.
Health Minister Tony Clement today launched the new 2007 version of Canada’s Food Guide – “Eating Well with Canada’s Food Guide” at the Real Canadian Superstore in Orleans, Ontario.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and its Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in cooperation with departments and agencies across the Federal Government, announced two new efforts designed to improve state, local and community preparedness for an influenza pandemic, which can occur when a new strain of flu appears for which people have no immunity, and disease spreads rapidly around the world.
A new study to find a non-invasive alternative to liver biopsy when diagnosing fibrosis found that a series of simple blood tests can accurately diagnose the condition.