The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the first test for the preliminary identification of norovirus that cause the “stomach flu,” or gastroenteritis.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 24, 2011
Florida houses 12 of the best 50 hospitals in the country, followed by Ohio with seven, a new survey has found.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 23, 2011
Increased and continuous use of computers is causing musculosketal disorders in a growing number of youth and children, according to a study by researchers at the Boston University.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 23, 2011
Pfizer Inc said it has settled all outstanding lawsuits involving accusations that it tested the experimental antibiotic Trovan on children in Nigeria during a 1996 meningitis outbreak without receiving adequate prior consent.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 22, 2011
Medtronic Inc (MDT.N) cut its full-year earnings forecast, hampered by weakness in key medical device markets, and said it would eliminate up to 2,000 jobs, sending its shares down 2 percent. The world's largest medical device maker has struggled with slow sales as patients postponed treatments in the global
Samantha Nolan
Feb 22, 2011
Many doctors are doing little or nothing to help their overweight or obese patients to lose weight but many of them have made new year resolutions for weight loss, according to a new Harris Poll.
Balasubramanyam Seshan
Feb 22, 2011
Prosthetic fangs, gold grills, tooth tattoos - these might sound crazy to you, but wait until you hear some other requests. The answers might shock you!
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 21, 2011
Her doctor says she suffered a complex migraine.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 19, 2011
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is helping partners in China improve child vaccines, roll out faster TB detection kits and make higher-yielding rice which it hopes can be used later in other parts of the world.
Wenwen Meng
Feb 18, 2011
A Beverly Hills bariatric surgeon has offered tips when considering a Lap Band procedure.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 18, 2011
Radio frequency exposure from cell phones is not linked to brain cancer, according to a study by British scientists
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 17, 2011
A Beverly Hills attorney has been sentenced to four months in county jail after he pleaded no contest to a single charge of attempting to smuggle black tar heroin into the downtown Los Angeles courthouse.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 17, 2011
Thousands of state workers and their supporters in Wisconsin have besieged the capitol in Madison to protest against huge budget cuts proposed by Governor Scott Walker.
Palash Ghosh
Feb 17, 2011
Researchers are a step closer to creating a medical 'smart bomb' that would seek out and wipe the root of cancer cells.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 17, 2011
Health care company Allergan said the FDA has approved the wider use of its Lap-Band weight-loss system.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 17, 2011
Apple CEO Steve Jobs may have only six weeks to live, according to the US-based tabloid National Enquirer. The magazine has published photos of Jobs taken on February 8 outside Stanford Cancer Center that show Jobs looking extremely thin and frail.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 17, 2011
Almost 1,000 school-children in Japan have become ill in a feared outbreak of food poisoning.
Palash Ghosh
Feb 15, 2011
A recently released study from researchers at the University of Miami – titled Health Effects of Energy Drinks on Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults – references and lists many side effects of caffeine overdoes/overconsumption.
Hao Li
Feb 15, 2011
The New York City Health Department has launched an iPhone and Android application - NYC Condom Finder - to help users find free condoms.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 15, 2011
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.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 15, 2011
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.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 15, 2011
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.
Jack Kim
Feb 14, 2011
