Articles in the Health Category
Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says production of a swine flue vaccine is being set up in case a program is recommended.Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said that in many markets, private insurers …
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Friday it was updating the label of Merck & Co.’s (MRK) Singulair and similar asthma medications to discuss reports of neuropsychiatric events such as agitation, depression, insomnia and …
A mysterious disease that’s killing
tens of thousands of bats in the Northeast is spreading so fast that it
could reach California within five years, biologists and officials of
the Agriculture and Interior departments told lawmakers …
The new study, published in PLoS Pathogens, suggests for the first time that when coupled with other risk factors for heart disease, cytomegalovirus (CMV) can lead to atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries.”The important thing …
Flu cases of the H1N1 virus continue to rise in Latin American countries as Ecuador on Friday confirmed its first case, bringing the total of affected countries in the region to 12. Malaysia has identified …
The WHO will convene an expert panel on April 29 to attempt to answer that question, but one way to begin is to look at where the virus originated.
Epidemiologists appear to be homing in on …
More than 1,000 people have fallen ill in Mexico City in a short period of time.
An unusual strain of swine flu has been detected among victims of a large outbreak of a severe respiratory …
Brown adipose tissue (called brown fat) helps babies, young children, and other small mammals stay warm by burning calories when activated by low temperatures. The more familiar fat — known as white fat, although it’s …
The patient’s own stem cells, harvested from their bone marrow may soon be to patch up damaged bones and joints anywhere in the body.
British scientists are testing injectable stem cells that can be guided around …
When cells divide, they use carbon 14 to build DNA, a phenomenon that can serve as a birthmark for new cells. By looking at DNA from people born before 1955, when the first nuclear bombs …
