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If the experience of war weren't difficult enough, many OIF/OEF veterans return home to struggle with the impact of combat stress and trauma and how this plays out in the family. Witness Justice and the Veterans Initiative Center and Research Institute (VICTRI), in collaboration with bipartisan U.S. House Caucuses (Addiction, Treatment and Recovery, Mental health, Veteran's Mental Health, and Victim's Rights), hosted an issue briefing on Capitol Hill today to discuss this issue and the results of a new national survey of veterans. read more

The U.S. is at a crossroads when it comes to nutrition advice. For decades, Americans have heard a lot about what not to eat, and much less about nutrient-rich foods to enjoy when building a healthy diet. Various stamps, stars and seals on food packaging labels also tend to focus on what foods don't contain -- like fat, sugar and salt -- rather than the valuable nutrients consumers should look for. read more

On October 20, the FDA issued a Med Alert to physicians and healthcare providers that cites serious complications from vaginal slings. This is a class of product marketed to treat stress urinary incontinence, a condition estimated to affect as many as 14 million women across the nation. Vaginal slings are constructed with surgical mesh designed to reinforce weakened bladder and urethra muscles that involuntarily release urine during moments of physical stress. read more

Minster Pharmaceuticals plc (AIM: MPM), the drug development company specializing in neurological and psychiatric disorders, is pleased to announce positive results from its Phase II trial in Denmark of tonabersat in the prevention of migraine with aura. The median number of aura attacks was reduced by 68% (p=0.01) in patients receiving tonabersat when compared with placebo. This result in the primary endpoint of the study is both clinically and statistically highly significant. read more

Despite the recent reports of football-related staph infections, experts say they only highlight how prevalent infections are among professional athletes.

TWO premature babies died after becoming infected with a drug-resistant strain of E coli, a hospital said yesterday.

BEIJING -- Facing a classroom of anxious parents-to-be, the head nurse at Haidian Maternal and Child health hospital asked whether any of them had prepared milk formula. They all shook their heads.

Federal health officials said Friday they will soon address growing concerns about the lucrative commissions that some Medicare insurers plan to pay their agents and brokers this year.

Sales of the controversial blood test were halted after a warning from the Food and Drug Administration.

SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) - The United States pledged an additional $320 million to the global fight against bird flu and warned on Saturday against complacency in combating the virus, which could mutate and cause a deadly pandemic.