Senate rejects Republican birth control challenge

Politics slideshowsJames Murdoch to liberty chairman role8 photos - Wed, Feb 29, 2012Romney sweeps Mich., Arizona primaries35 photos - Tue, Feb 28, 2012Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe to withdraw from circulation 10 photos - Tue, Feb 28, 2012See latest photos More...

Toxins Afloat in Shark Fin Soup?

THURSDAY, March 1 (HealthDay News) -- Shark fins contain high levels of a neurotoxin called BMAA, that is linked to neurodegenerative diseases in humans of the like kind as Alzheimer's and Lou Gehrig's indisposition (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), according More...

Cholesterol Statin Safety Alerts Prompt Search for Alternatives

COMMENTARY | The Food and medicine Administration has issued new safety alerts towards statin drugs like Lipitor, Zocor, Vytorin and Crestor which are used to reduce cholesterol, says the New York Times. Along by increased blood sugar, patients have reported More...

Syphilis tests could save a million babies: experts

LONDON (Reuters) - The lives of not quite a million newborn babies could be saved every year if simple, of little value and rapid tests for syphilis were offered to pregnant women in poorer countries, global soundness experts said on Thursday.The Global More...

How marijuana impairs memory

The tools and materials offer important new insight into the brain and build up the possibility that marijuana's benefits for the treatment of pain, seizures and other ailments efficiency some day be attained without hurting monumental record, the researchers More...

Aide to American producer killed by drugs fined in Uganda

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Two Pancreatic-Enzyme Products Approved

THURSDAY, March 1 (HealthDay News) -- Two drugs that continuation the digestion-aiding actions of pancreatic enzymes be seized of been approved by the U.S. Food and drug Administration, the agency said Thursday in a recent accounts release.Ultresa (pancrelipase) More...

Divides emerge in US, world response to mutant flu

Related Contentprevnext  Enlarge PhotoA scientist inspects liquid samples for signs of the fowl flu virus at a laboratory …Enlarge PhotoA pipe with a sample taken from a fowl of the air at a live poultry market in New York. A part  More...

Official: Doctor had recruiters in Medicare scheme

Related Contentprevnext  Enlarge PhotoW. Rick Copeland, Director of Medical Fraud Control Unit of the Office of the Texas …Enlarge PhotoDaniel R. Levinson, Inspector General U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, … More...

Self-prescribing declining among young doctors

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Far fewer doctors-in-breeding are prescribing themselves medication than in the past time, suggests a new study.Less than one percent of residents surveyed said they wrote themselves a prescript for an allergy medication, antidepressant More...