By David Brown Two years after the federal government recommended that patients in emergency rooms and doctors' offices be routinely tested for HIV, the advice is generally not being followed, according to a large number of studies presented this week ...
By Elizabeth Cohen (CNN) -- Blanche Danick may be 86 years old, but she's pretty hip. She keeps up with all the latest health news, and a while back, she called her daughter wanting to know whether she should start taking the herb ginkgo biloba.
Representatives of the insurance industry told Congress yesterday that they support an overhaul of the healthcare system that would call for them to accept any customer who applies for coverage, regardless of health status, the Associated Press reports ...
The science of stem cell research has demonstrated a major practical advance - a Colombian woman has become the first person to receive a whole organ transplant developed using her own cells.
By RONI CARYN RABIN Banning fast food advertisements from children’s television programs would reduce the number of overweight children in the US by 18 percent and decrease the number of overweight teens by 14 percent, economists have estimated in a ...
By Jim Loney MIAMI (Reuters) - An American teen-ager survived for nearly four months without a heart, kept alive by a custom-built artificial blood-pumping device, until she was able to have a heart transplant, doctors in Miami said on Wednesday.
November 20, 2008 - Consumption of cruciferous vegetables might help protect smokers against lung cancer, according to new data. Although cruciferous vegetables are known to confer a protective effect against a number of cancers, this is the first ...
By ANDY MILLER Atlanta employers tamed their health benefits costs in 2008 better than their counterparts nationally, according to a survey released this week.
By David Olmos Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Amgen Inc.'s decision to suspend a clinical trial of its experimental cancer drug motesanib because of higher deaths among patients sets back the company's efforts to expand in the market for oncology treatments.
By Amanda Gardner WEDNESDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Testing for 18 different gene variations associated with type 2 diabetes was no better at predicting a person's risk for the blood sugar disease than a doctor's assessment, researchers report.
LONDON, Nov 20 (Reuters) - The Dutch government has selected GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK.L: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) cervical cancer vaccine Cervarix for the country's national immunisation programme, the company said on Thursday.
About 30000 people in Santa Cruz County rely on Medicare for prescription drug coverage, and almost all of them will be affected by rate hikes and plan changes that take effect Jan. 1. People can save hundreds to thousands of dollars a year by ...
It's not easy being a preteen wolf boy - but scientists at Columbia University are confident they've finally found the silver bullet that can cure one.
By Andrea M. Kane ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- A new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that infants born as a result of assisted reproductive technology, or ART -- such as in vitro fertilization and the use of donor eggs ...
In one of the hottest medical findings in the current year, the JUPITER (Justification for the Use of Statins in Primary Prevention: An Intervention Trial Evaluating Rosuvastatin) Trial showed that statins could cut the risk of heart attack, ...
GOLDSBORO, NC - North Carolina officials have fired three employees and disciplined others in the death of a patient who was neglected for more than 22 hours at a state-operated mental hospital.
SEATTLE - A Mason County man who lost his penis to flesh-eating bacteria in prison has won a $300000 settlement from the Washington Department of Corrections.
By Steven Reinberg TUESDAY, Nov. 18 (HealthDay News) -- US health advisers were taking a closer look Tuesday at those increasingly popular cosmetic treatments called dermal fillers that help to smooth away deep lines and wrinkles on the face.
As allergies to peanuts, milk, eggs and gluten have risen, a cult-like following has emerged around the EpiPen, a single-shot of medication that can halt a potentially deadly reaction.
After an eight-month investigation, the Humane Society of the United States accused Petland, the national pet store chain, of selling dogs bred under appalling conditions.
A rising number of people have seen their retirement plans evaporate. As 401(k)s dwindle, their dreams of golden years are being replaced by feelings of hopelessness and anger.
An organ allocation policy that puts the sickest patients first in line to receive available donor livers has created unintended consequences for those low on the organ wait list.
Some advanced lung cancer patients already treated with chemotherapy might be able to skip some of the bad side effects of another series of chemo by taking a pill instead.
U.S. health officials asked doctors on Thursday to be alert for possible cases of meningitis and other illnesses in children caused by Hib bacteria amid an ongoing vaccine shortage.
Cancer is the disease most often associated with cigarettes. Yet there is something far more common, more lethal , and more avoidable linked to cigarettes € the heart attack.
Two years after the government urged that HIV tests become as common as cholesterol checks, one in five people infected with the AIDS virus still doesn't know it.
When you work in a vaccine factory, getting dressed is half the job. Inside one of the two American labs that produce millions of flu shots every year.
Burger King Corp. said it is cutting the amount of sodium in its kids meals and promoting menu combinations with less than 650 calories as part of a push to emphasize nutrition.
