The American Public Health Association today announced its enthusiastic support for new legislation aimed at mitigating public health personnel shortages and en...
The American Public Health Association today announced its enthusiastic support for new legislation aimed at mitigating public health personnel shortages and ensuring that the United States is adequately protected from public health threats by a rob...
The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Mdecins Sans Frontires (MSF) fears that a new Decree will make it much more difficult to obtain affordable essential medicines in Ecuador. This Decree will have a direct neg...
Sarah Lopez wants to improve health care for the large Latino community in her California hometown. Gabriel Rivera plans to advance medical research to help Mexican American immigrants across the country. And Gabriela Diaz seeks to break down the cu...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today confirmed that it is investigating reports that at least three dairy cattle have died after exposure to a toxic substance on a farm in Enumclaw, Wash., approximately 50 miles southeast of Seattle. FDA's S...
Unless radical action is taken, one billion people will die from smoking-related diseases this century, Sir Richard Peto told the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health at its annual lecture. This compared with 100 million in the 20th century. It...
Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the University of California, San Francisco, have completed a new historical analysis of the 38-year struggle to provide a prescription drug benefit to seniors as part of Medic...
Polio experts warn of largest epidemic in recent years, as polio hits Darfur. Epidemiologists 'alarmed' by continuing spread of virus - warn thousands of children could be paralyzed across west and central Africa Epidemiologists of the Global Polio...
The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials today welcomed the release of $849 million in federal awards to states, territories, and four major metropolitan areas to assist in anti-terror efforts, while voicing strong concern that the...
People with bad teeth can no longer blame childhood habits. A new study has found that, contrary to common perceptions, an unhealthy adult lifestyle is responsible for poor oral health in later years. Researchers from the University of Newcastle upo...
A team of international researchers has shown that coating implanted medical devices with a key peptide known as RIP can prevent the occurrence of bacterial colonization, biofilm formation and consequent drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infectio...
According to a new study published in the latest issue of The Journal of Sexual Medicine and conducted in the Department of Psychology of McGill University, thermography shows grea...
A researcher in the Oregon Health and Science University Cancer Institute and Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center has found a way to identify which men need a second prostate ...
Boys aged 13 and 14 living in rural areas, are the most likely of their age group to access pornography, and parents need to be more aware of how to monitor their children's viewin...
Continuing with more than a decade of research, doctors at the University of Minnesota have discovered a treatment to help patients with advanced cases of adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD...
Lawmakers in 30 states are preparing to introduce bills that would require large corporations to increase their spending on employee health insurance, the New Y...
Lawmakers in 30 states are preparing to introduce bills that would require large corporations to increase their spending on employee health insurance, the New Y ...
More US residents "will need government help" with health insurance, as employers shift more of the cost to employees and health care costs continue to increase ...
Four recently published opinion pieces examined health insurance and the various reform proposals being considered in Massachusetts. Summaries appear below. Cha ...
The Maryland General Assembly on Thursday overrode Gov. Robert Ehrlich's (R) veto of a bill that will require employers with more than 10,000 workers in the sta ...
Nature has outfitted us with a pair of ears for good reason: having two ears enhances hearing. University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists are now examining whet...
Large majorities of those who were treated with therapy and with medication satisfied with their care - A national survey of the generaladult population and of ...
According to a new study published in the latest issue of The Journal of Sexual Medicine and conducted in the Department of Psychology of McGill University, the...
Lawmakers in 30 states are preparing to introduce bills that would require large corporations to increase their spending on employee health insurance, the New Y...
