Information from a new study raises the possibility that people could be tested to see if they are at risk for Parkinson’s disease and then undergo preventative treatment. The study done by scientists at Buck Institute for Age Research showed…

China’s State Food and Drug Administration said in a recent released statement that it is the receiving country’s responsibility to ensure the safety of pharmaceutical ingredients they import from other countries.

A California doctor is in court fighting for his freedom in a case that involves the life and death of a disabled young man whose organs were to be harvested for transplanting.

Over half the teenagers who were recently observed in a study published in JAMA have shown considerable improvement overcoming depression. This is great news in the face of the fact that many teenagers don’t respond well to anti-depressant medications, such…

A late-night compromise on Tuesday led to the verbal vote on Wednesday that gives approval to the US Foreign Affairs Committee to extend US funding of the Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, which was enacted in 2003 to provide care…

A new study shows some promise in women with symptomatic fibroids. While the common treatment has been a hysterectomy, this study’s findings show that the patients who were studies faired well using a treatment called uterine artery embolization (UAE).

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The federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recently voted to extend its recommendations for annual flu shots for children. Current recommendations cover children aged 6 months to 5 years but the new recommendations urge vaccinations for all children between the…

Men in the U.S. are 61 percent more likely to suffer a stroke than European men. U.S. women have almost twice the likelihood of suffering a stroke than European women. These statistics were recently provided through a study at the…

Another case of mad cow disease has been confirmed in Canada. This is the twelfth case of the disease in the country since its discovery in 2003.

Reserachers from the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center of New York Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia Medical Center have released promising findings of the drug Abraxane’s ability to offer alternatives to surgery for bladder cancer patients.