Top news - Health latest news

A growing band of researchers is trying to redefine how diseases are classified - by looking at their genetic underpinnings.

Beijing - At least 34 children have died in an outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease in China as the total number of infections has risen to 25,000, the official news agency Xinhua reported Friday. The toll rose with two more deaths in the eastern...

Some teenagers and young adults get high on drink and drugs to improve their sex lives, research suggests.

AP - There's a grim, rarely talked-about twist to all that medical know-how doctors learn to save lives: It makes them especially good at ending their own. An estimated 300 to 400 U.S. doctors kill themselves each year ? a suicide rate thought to be higher than in the general population, although exact figures are hard to come by.

Resurgent Health and Medical, a leader in automated handwashing and sanitizing Technology, announced today the recognition of the 2.9 million Registered Nurses working in the United States. Resurgent has worked aggressively with hospital and medical facilities to promote and encourage hand hygiene and infection control.

Array BioPharma Inc. (Nasdaq: ARRY) announced that its Chief Medical Officer, John Yates, M.D., presented additional positive results from a Phase 2 clinical trial evaluating the efficacy of ARRY-797, a novel small molecule pan-cytokine inhibitor, in patients with post-surgical dental pain at the American Pain Society's 27th Annual Scientific Meeting in Tampa, Florida.

The Duneland School Corporation, with the purchase of the Sports-O-Zone machine, becomes the first in the State of Indiana to take steps to proactively protect its athletes from the deadly MRSA virus. After a student athlete was hospitalized last fall with a cut infected by the MRSA virus, the school administration moved quickly to insure that all precautions were being taken. Dr.

Hurricane Katrina provoked increased complaints to doctors of pneumonia, bronchitis and other lower respiratory illnesses among 144 children studied in Mississippi, according to a report released yesterday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Teenagers who smoke marijuana put themselves at risk for future mental illness and higher rates of depression, according to a report to be released today by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.

(Association for Professionals in Infection Control) Strategies for infection prevention, best practices, the changing legal landscape of healthcare-associated infections and emerging multidrug-resistant bacteria are among the topics that will be covered at the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology 35th Annual Educational Conference and International Meeting, June 15-19 in Denver, Colo. The meeting is the largest annual gathering of infection prevention and control professionals from around the world.