health - "medicine"

It's a serious issue facing more American parents: premature births.Over the last 25 years, the number of those births has soared 30percent in the United States - to more than 500,000 a year. The trendis so alarming that today the surgeon general gathered a panel todiscuss how to reverse it. CBS News' Dr. Emily Senay reports in Eye onMedicine.

Positron emission tomography (PET) could be an important tool for identifying non-Hodgkin's lymphoma patients who are likely to respond well to treatment with 90 ibritumomab tiuxetan (IT)-the first radioimmunotherapy treatment approved for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, said researchers at the Society of Nuclear medicine's 55th Annual Meeting.

Combined positron emission tomography (PET) and computed tomography (CT) scanning of patients in the early stages of ovarian cancer can enable physicians to determine whether the cancer has spread to nearby lymph nodes without having to perform surgery, according to researchers at the Society of Nuclear medicine's 55th Annual Meeting.

The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) has been formally notified by Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics S.r.l. of its decision to withdraw the application for a centralised marketing authorisation for the pre-pandemic vaccine Aflunov (A/VietNam/1194/2004 (H5N1) virus surface inactivated antigen).

The UK should regulate acupuncture, herbal medicines and other traditional therapies 'without delay', say experts.

Cymbalta has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the management of fibromyalgia. Cymbalta, generic name duloxetine HCl, is a medicine developed by drugmaker Eli Lilly and...

By doing tests on mice fed on a calorie restricted diet, US researchers have discovered that ghrelin, a hormone that increases when people don't eat, may defend against symptoms of depression or anxiety brought on by stress.The research is the work of scientists led by senior author Dr Jeffrey Zigman, assistant professor of internal medicine and psychiatry at the University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

LONDON (Reuters) - European drugmakers are better than their U.S. counterparts in ensuring medicines reach people in poor countries, with Britain's GlaxoSmithKline Plc leading the field, according to an analysis on Monday.

GE Healthcare will be showcasing the company's pioneering new single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging applications; positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) MotionFree technologies; and new pre-clinical imaging and radiopharmaceutical offerings at the 55th annual meeting of the Society of Nuclear medicine, June 15 - 19, in New Orleans, Louisiana.

The Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) announced that Tasigna® (nilotinib) is accepted for use within NHS Scotland for treatment of adult patients with Philadelphia positive (Ph+) chronic myelogenous leukaemia (CML), who are resistant to or intolerant of at least one prior therapy including Glivec (imatinib), in the early phase of the disease.