HEALTH

Warner Chilcott Plc (WCRX), Roche Holding AG (ROG), Merck **9** Co. and Novartis AG (NOVN) need to change the labeling of Bisphosphonates, a medicine taken by patients to prevent and cure osteoporosis, the FDA said.

Johnson & Johnson and C.R. Bard Inc. have to carry more clinical studies and present more safety data on the transvaginal mesh used to treat prolapsed pelvic organ, FDA said on Friday.

A new study by Harvard University researchers suggest that women who drink alcohol in reasonable quantity and time, have better chances to be in good physical and mental health in old age, then non-drinkers.

An advisory panel to the US Food and Drug Administration wants the agency to limit the duration of bisphosphonate therapy for treatment of osteoporosis, but the committee could not agree on what that time limit should be.

Cantaloupe is the likely source of a listeria outbreak involving three states as reported by Colorado health officials.

The owner of a Texas daycare center has been arrested for allegedly drugging milk and abusing the kids.

Beyond the rubble, debris, and destruction, exists several individuals who risk their lives daily and who made no exception on September 11, 2001, despite hazardous toxins floating around in the air.

People respond preferentially to pictures of animals, according to a new study.

In the new film Contagion, a rapidly evolving virus threatens to wipe out global society and federal health officials from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, whose staffers served as extras, must save the world from the killer outbreak.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Thursday announced the availability of two funding opportunities for community health centers to help build, expand and improve community health centers across the U.S. to provide needed care to low-income Americans.

More people chose to stick to the Weight Watchers diet, and lost more weight and fat mass, than those assigned to standard primary care, new research found.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommended against an immediate approval for Bayer AG and Johnson & Johnson’s anti-clotting drug, Xarelto, as a treatment to prevent strokes in patients with atrial fibrillation.

Norovirus remained the most common food-borne disease in 2008, but more people were hospitalized for Salmonella poisoning than any other food-related illness, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says in its annual report on food-borne illness.

The dust that blanketed Ground Zero and much of lower Manhattan in the aftermath of the World Trade Center's collapse was full of toxic chemicals that left a deadly mark on thousands of rescue workers.

Two doses of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine may be offering just as much protection against cervical cancer as the three-dose regimen which is now being used, as per a new U.S. government research.

A medical privacy breach at Stanford University’s hospital in Palo Alto, Calif. has led to the public posting of medical records for 20,000 emergency room patients, which includes names and diagnosis codes, on a commercial Web site for nearly a year, as confirmed by the hospital.

A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee recommended approval of a major new anticoagulant drug for stroke prevention, rejecting an FDA staff analysis that found flaws in the study of the medicine.

Almost nine percent of the U.S. population used illegal drugs last year, according to a new survey, which found marijuana was the most popularly consumed drug.

A British study suggests that fetuses can feel pain between 35 to 37 weeks.

A 12-year-old South African girl is the first black child to be diagnosed with progeria, according to the Progeria Research Foundation.

FDA warns Brazilian Blowout manufacturer to stop misleading consumers.

Stroke patients do not fare better with brain stents, a study has shown.

In the first randomized controlled study of Weight Watchers participants, family doctors compared the commercial weight-loss program with standard care, and found that Weight Watchers was more than twice as effective.

A draft statement from the United Nations on addressing chronic diseases an upcoming summit served as a great disappointment after no mention of how to tackle and treat disease epidemics, an international health group said group Thursday.

Doctors are paid more in the United States than in any other country, a new study has revealed.

One in four Americans respect smokers less than nonsmokers

Middle-aged women, who indulge in moderate consumption of an alcoholic beverage on a regular basis, stand a better chance of staying healthy as they grow older, research shows.

A nationwide law enforcement crackdown has charged 91 people with participating in Medicare fraud schemes involving $295 million in false billing.

Aggressive use of cardiovascular drugs is much more effective in preventing a recurrence of stroke than deploying a stent to prop open narrowed arteries in the brain, a U.S. government-funded study reports.