Exposure to fluoride may lower children's intelligence, says a study pre-published in Environmental Health Perspectives, a publication of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Fluoride is added to 70 percent of U.S. public drinking water supplies.
State schools want to make it more difficult for Caribbean medical students to get clinical training slots in hospitals.
Medicare’s open enrollment season ends on Dec. 31 and the popular government-run healthcare system is reminding members that now is the time to enroll, re-enroll or change their Medicare Part D, or prescription drug plan, for 2011.
Medtronic Inc. (NYSE:MDT) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the medical technology company's device to treat abdominal aneurysm, a blood-filled bulge or ballooning in a part of aorta that runs through abdomen.
A chemical which, in high concentrations, is likely to cause cancer and irritates the respiratory system and skin has been found in tap water in 31 of 35 American cities, according to a new study.
Foodborne disease, commonly called food poisoning, is any illness resulting from the consumption of contaminated food. Salmonella was the leading cause of foodborne disease in the U.S., according to a study.
InterMune Inc. (Nasdaq: ITMN) soared 144.50 percent on after a European advisory panel recommended that Esbriet, the company’s lung disease drug, be approved for sale in the European Union (EU).
Oklahoma has executed John David Duty, 58, on Thursday keeping alive its capital punishment policy. The difference this time was that it used for the first time a drug called pentobarbital, a sedative that is used as euthanasia for animals.
The Vietnam Veterans of America today filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit in U.S. District Court in New Haven, CT, claiming that the Department of Defense has failed to comply with the law by not releasing records on Personality Disorder discharges.
German researchers say they have cured a man of HIV infection that could prove to be a scientific advance but researchers familiar with the work feel it is not necessarily a treatment advance.
A recent study shows that incorporating almonds into your diet can help treat and possibly prevent type 2 diabetes, as well as cardiovascular disease.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said it has removed common artificial sweetener saccharin, long believed to be a potential cancer-causing substance, from its list of hazardous substances.
A man in St. Louis and a woman in New Hampshire have received the first kidney transplants through a new computer algorithm that matches transplant candidates with living donors
Dealing a blow to a key part of the recently passed U.S. health care reform law, a federal judge ruled Monday it is unconstitutional to require individuals to buy health insurance or face a fine.
Robots could assist doctors and nurses with monitoring patients, boosting efficiency.
The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Orexigen Therapeutics, VIVUS, Microvision, Aixtron, Dynamex, ASM International, Zix, Ryanair Holdings, Geron, and Oracle.
The World Health Organization has endorsed a new, rapid tuberculosis (TB) test that can diagnose the killer disease within two hours.
The top after-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Orexigen Therapeutics, Arena Pharmaceuticals, Mitcham Industries, VIVUS, Casella Waste Systems, Scientific Games, Discovery Communications, Digirad, Amylin Pharmaceuticals, DIRECTV, and Lamar Advertising.
The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Cytori Therapeutics, Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, Zix, Powerwave Technologies, optionsXpress Holdings, Interactive Brokers Group, Qiao Xing Universal Resources, Seagate Technology, and Fifth Third Bancorp.
The top after-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: Abiomed, Fuel Systems Solutions, Geron, Wintrust Financial, Avago Technologies, James River Coal, Micrel, Celgene, United Therapeutics, and Novatel Wireless.
The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Verigy, Radware, Rambus, Nova Measuring Instruments, ASM International, VIVUS, optionsXpress Holdings, Ariad Pharmaceuticals, Geron, and DryShips.
Researchers from Australia are using data mining techniques to treat and prevent depression.
