It's a dream of medical science that looks tantalizingly within reach: the artificial pancreas, a potential breakthrough treatment for the scourge of type 1 diabetes.
The U.S. Medicare program for the elderly will cover counseling for obesity in an effort to reduce the condition that has reached epidemic proportions and leads to serious health problems.
International fashion retailers and high-end luxury brands across the globe have joined hands to raise awareness and fight the debilitating immune-related condition, HIV/AIDS on the occasion of the World AIDS Day on Dec.1, 2011.
News that Oneal Ron Morris injected a mixture of cement and tire sealant into another transgender woman's face has just surfaced as the victim tells her story to CBS News.
Dr. Donald Berwick, who was praised for his efforts to reform health care by Republicans such as Newt Gingrich long before he was approached by the Obama administration, was attacked for allegedly favoring health care rationing after being nominated for CMS chief by President Obama in 2010.
Diphtheria and polio are generally thought of as historical relics, diseases to go along with consumption as plot devices for period piece movies and historical fiction novels. For some kids, though, these bacterial menaces could become very much a part of a modern life.
In a report in the venerable medical journal Fertility and Sterility, Argentinian scientists describe how they got semen samples from 29 healthy men, placed a few drops under a laptop connected to the Internet via Wi-Fi and then hit download.
Three prospective school teachers have appealed to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to end discrimination against people with HIV after they said they were wrongly denied teaching jobs because their employers discovered they had the virus that causes AIDS.
One out of every 10 people who get a stent inserted to open up blocked arteries ends up back in the hospital within 30 days, suggests a new study that also found the readmitted patients are more likely to die in the next year.
A cancer vaccine that tackles tumors and out-of-control cells -- a first of its kind -- will soon enter clinical trials in what researchers hope will transform currently fatal diseases into chronic illnesses.
At least six people have died of AIDS after evangelical churches in Great Britain told them that God had cured their HIV and that they could stop taking medication, according to a Sky News investigation. Another person thinks he infected his partner after his church told him he could have unprotected sex and start a family.
Secondary pharmaceutical distributors say a major report that accused them of price gouging -- and as a result, worsening the current U.S. drug shortage -- used exaggerated figures to imply so-called 'gray market' vendors charge exorbitant prices for their products.
A study has revealed that most heart patients prefer long life to quality of life.
The numbers for Malta are 21.1 percent for women are obese (second highest in Europe) and 24.7 percent for men (the highest for the continent).
The medicinal value of cannabis is a controversial topic. The debate centering on the legality of its use in certain situations has been unresolved for decades now, fueled, to some extent, by the U.S. federal authorities refusal to accept its possible medicinal uses. That refusal has hit the billion dollar marijuana industry hard in recent times.
The world's largest backer of the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria said on Wednesday it was cutting new grants for countries battling the diseases and bringing in a new manager to ensure better administration.
Longtime E! News host Giuliana Rancic has spoken out about her breast cancer update, one month after undergoing a double lumpectomy.
Pfizer Inc. agreed to buy privately held biopharmaceutical company Excaliard Pharmaceuticals for an undisclosed sum, to gain access to Excaliard's experimental skin scarring drug.
Young adults who take oral antibiotics for acne may be more likely to get sore throats, according to a new study.
Study suggests that a sense of smell can improve with training.
Dance therapy, a field expected to grow 15 percent by 2018, uses the body's movement as a door to mental and physical health.
Canada's public healthcare system is becoming too expensive but could offer better value without drastic cuts or abandoning its state-funded structure, one of the country's most influential economists said on Thursday.
