MEDICINE

British actor, Andy Whitfield, who played a main character on Starz network’s “Spartacus: Blood and Sand,” died on Sunday after battling Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma cancer for more than a year.

They meow, they glow in the dark and they could help scientists understand how to shield the immune system against the ravages of HIV/AIDS.

Whitfield, 39, succumbs to non-Hodgkin lymphoma

The investigation into a listeria outbreak has been expanded to include three states where contaminated cantaloupe was consumed, Colorado health officials say.

A study by researchers at Emory University in Atlanta predicts that enrolling 70 percent of older adults who are at risk for diabetes or cardiovascular disease in community-based intervention programs would reduce Medicare expenditures by up to $15 billion.

A new U.S. study says women with hereditary cancers are developing them almost eight years earlier than their mothers and grandmothers.

An advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration wants time limits on the use of osteoporosis drugs, but could not agree on a figure.

By covering community-based weight loss programs for people who are at risk of developing diabetes and heart disease, Medicare could save up to $15 billion in the next decade.

It's been overlooked -- it's received very little coverage by the popular press -- but it's worth repeating: one benefit of the 2010 U.S. health care reform legislation will be: enhanced job mobility.

Long-term exposure to a class of osteoporosis drugs called bisphosphonates is associated with serious side effects, concluded panels to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

U.S. scientists have developed a strain of green-glowing cats with cells that resist infection from a virus that causes feline AIDS, a finding that may help prevent the disease in cats and advance AIDS research in people.

Biphosphonates, drugs introduced to the market 16 years ago that treats osteoporosis, need labeling to clarify how long patients should take them as data suggests that efficacy decreases while risk increases after some period, panels to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) voted on Friday.

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.

Warner Chilcott Plc (WCRX), Roche Holding AG (ROG), Merck & 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.

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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.

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.

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.