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One hundred scientists and physicians have written a letter to the Food and Drug Administration asking for more regulation of ...

The government Accountability Office's report being released Wednesday concluded that the Food and Drug Administration is nowhere ...

Debra Barnes has a thriving chiropractic practice, a nice home and a family who loves living in the South, but she said she would ...

Science has found many links between depression and other serious medical illnesses, such as cancer, stroke, diabetes, and heart disease. For example, people who develop depression following a heart attack (myocardial infarction) or chest pain (angina) have an elevated risk of cardiac death or hospital readmission over the following year.

Peregrine Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has announced that updated preliminary data from the first stage of its Phase II trial evaluating bavituximab in combination with docetaxel showed that 10 of 14 (71%) evaluable breast cancer patients achieved an objective tumor response according to RECIST criteria.

Australian fertility experts say a dose of daily sunshine could help men with fertility problems and they suggest couples struggling to conceive should consider getting out in the sunshine more often.

The medical literature is chock full of risk ratios, P values, numbers needed to treat, life tables, regressions, survival analyses, and confidence intervals. But what do they mean? A second edition of the book Medical Statistics Made Easy, recently released by Scion Publishing (http://www.scionpublishing.

ATLANTA (AP) -- Food allergies in American children seem to be on the rise, now affecting about 3 million kids, according to the first federal study of the problem....

Oxfam has today (World Food Day, October 16th) launched a massive fundraising appeal to tackle the impact of rising world food prices, which have pushed an extra 119 million people into hunger, taking the global total to nearly 1 billion.

ATLANTA (AP) -- For the first time, an influential government panel is recommending a vaccination specifically for smokers....