The families of many children injured or sickened by the antipsychotic drugs they’d been prescribed are calling for the testimony of a prominent child psychiatrist whose endorsement of such drugs led to a 40-fold (4,000%) …

Like the Marlboro Man and martini-swilling TV characters of a couple of decades ago, some advocates for children’s nutritional health would like to see the king of burgers and his clownish golden-arched competition disappear from …

The Children’s Health Fund (CHF) released its first report on the health of the children displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005 and it seems that, even years after storm winds and rains have …

Medical history is dotted with stories of cancers vanishing without a trace and without any treatment, either.  Once considered medical oddities, a new study suggests more cancers go away without treatment than would be expected.  …

In the last 13 years, 82 American kids have died playing the choking game but the thousands of other teenagers who play the game risk death every time, according to the US Centers for Disease …

Before a new drug can gain approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), clinical studies must be conducted that document the drug’s safety and effectiveness.  To do so, a very exacting set of …

A recent issue of the ‘Federal Register,’ published by the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division, gives the final word on a much-anticipated amendment to the 1993 Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), …

Using current medical technologies, doctors must rely on biopsies or visual image scanning, such as x-ray, MRI, and PET, to diagnose glioblastoma, the form of brain tumor for which US Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Mass) has …

It took five months for researchers at England’s Bristol University to grow the 60 million stem cells needed for the breakthrough windpipe transplant recently performed on a Colombian woman in Barcelona, Spain, in order to …

Almost all doctors in the United States say they’ve spent too much time on paperwork lately, so much so that many of them are forced to spend more time with paperwork than with their patients, …