MEDICINE

The New York City Health Department has launched an iPhone and Android application - NYC Condom Finder - to help users find free condoms.

An American woman in her 60s made history after she gave birth to her daughter's baby. Kristine Casey, 61, acted as a surrogate mother for her 35-year old daughter Sara Connell, who had been trying for years to conceive.

The low-end model, called OneBreath, was designed by a team of researchers led by Matthew Callaghan, MD, at Stanford Biodesign and aims to bridge, in part at least, the overriding global shortage of these critical medical devices, especially in developing countries.

Morocco's sole sugar refiner Cosumar has not been able to meet interim targets of a plan to raise local beet and cane contribution to overall domestic sugar demand to 55 percent by 2013 from 36 percent.

No 'safe' level of consumption of energy drinks has been established for children, adolescents and young adults, says the report from the medical journal.

Alcohol causes nearly 4 percent of deaths worldwide, more than AIDS, tuberculosis or violence, the World Health Organization warned on Friday.

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Medtronic Inc. (NYSE: MDT) said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved its Revo MRI pacemaker - the first such device in the U.S. designed for safe use during certain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exams.

U.S. FDA says certain patients receiving the new Revo MRI SureScan Pacing System can safely have an MRI exam.

The US Food and Drug Administration FDA on Tuesday approved the first pacemaker system -- produced by medical device giant Medtronic Inc and designed to be used safely during certain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exams.

Doctors hope to treat this year's severe flu epidemic in Hong Kong by harvesting antibodies from patients who have recovered, medical experts said on Tuesday.

If yoga is all the rage, can Qigong be far behind?

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new mobile radiology application that allows doctors to see medical images and make diagnoses on Apple's iPhone and iPad. The Mobile MIM app should be available in Apple’s U.S. App Store next week.

Oakland officials have been warned by federal authorities not to allow large-scale marijuana farms in the city as it violates U.S. laws and could lead to a crackdown on the growers and their backers.

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Studies published in the medical journal The Lancet, show that obesity worldwide almost doubled in the decades between 1980 and 2008.

Pharma major GlaxoSmithKline Plc posted a quarterly loss hit by a massive charge to settle further litigation related to its diabetes drug Avandia, but the company raised its dividend and said it would resume its share buyback program.

A Planned Parenthood clinic manager has been fired for behavior captured on an undercover video made by an anti-abortion group, a Planned Parenthood spokesman said on Wednesday.

About two out of every five (41 percent) pregnancies in New York are aborted – more than double the national rate (19 percent). This news comes as an increasing number of state legislatures are seeking measures to restrict abortions.

A pair of Democratic Senators have called on their colleagues to stop a pair of bills expected to pass in the House of Representatives prohibit federal funds to be used to subsidize abortion providers.

Newly trained female doctors in the United States make nearly $17,000 less than their male counterparts, even though women increasingly are choosing careers in higher-paying medical specialties, U.S. researchers