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One of Japan's largest instant noodle makers said it was issuing a nationwide recall after a woman grew sick when she ate a cup ...

Congress is stepping in to ask questions about chemical industry influence in drafting a Food and Drug Administration report ...

Federal health officials said Friday they will soon address growing concerns about the lucrative commissions that some Medicare ...

Researchers from Uppsala University have discovered a mechanism that silences several genes in a chromosome domain. The findings, published in today's on-line issue of Molecular Cell, have implications in understanding the human disorder Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome. In mammals the cells contain two copies of each chromosome, one inherited from the mother and one from the father.

In a potential breakthrough for the performance horse industry (such as racing and polo), Melbourne scientists are aiming to harness stem cells to repair tendon, ligament, cartilage and bone damage in horses.

Norhealth is an interactive web-based health information system that has created a knowledge base for health promotion and prevention strategies in Norway. An article about Norhealth has been published in the September issue of Scandinavian Journal of Public health.

According to statistics, the Internet has become the most important information infrastructure of human society these days, accounting for 80% of human information exchange, and providing great strategic significance for social progress, economic development and national security.

GENEVA (AP) -- The United Nations says over 12,220 people have been infected with cholera in Guinea-Bissau and 201 have died from the disease....

LONDON (AP) -- About half of American doctors in a new survey say they regularly give patients placebo treatments - usually drugs or vitamins that won't really help their condition. And many of these doctors are not honest with their patients about what they are doing, the survey found....

Researchers from McGill University, along with colleagues from the California Institute of Technology, the Curie Institute in Paris, Princeton University and other institutions, have unearthed crystalline magnetic fossils of a previously unknown species of microorganism that lived at the boundary of the Paleocene and Eocene epochs, some 55 million years ago. Their results were published Oct.