health - "medicine"

The American Medical Association (AMA), the nation's largest physician organization, voted today at its Annual Meeting to adopt the following new public health policies.

If you work a lot of overtime you may be putting yourself at risk for anxiety and depression, suggests a study in the June Journal of Occupational and Environmental medicine,...

Screening HIV in Patients Older Than 55 Years of Age is Cost-EffectiveA new study examined the cost-effectiveness of HIV screening in patients from age 55 to 75. Recently revised screening guidelines issued by the CDC recommend that all patients aged 13 to 64 be tested.

A new study published in Annals of Internal medicine has good news for coffee drinkers: Regular coffee drinking (up to 6 cups per day) is not associated with increased deaths in either men or women. In fact, both caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee consumption is associated with a somewhat smaller rate of death from heart disease.

HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt signed a memorandum of understanding with Chinese Vice Minister of health Wang Guoqiang to foster collaboration between scientists in both countries in research on integrative and traditional Chinese medicine. The signing marks the opening of a two-day traditional Chinese medicine Research Roundtable at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The roundtable features scientific presentations by researchers from China and the United States.

Research in the United States has shown that obese people are less likely than their normal-weight peers to undergo screening for breast, colon and cervical cancer. Raj Padwal, Rebecca Mitchell and Scott Klarenbach, from the University of Alberta's Faculty of medicine & Dentistry, have undertaken a study to see if this trend is also true in Canada.

The British Acupuncture Council (BAcC) welcomes the report out from the Department of health Steering Group on the Regulation of Acupuncture, Herbal medicine and Traditional Chinese medicine. The report recommends the statutory regulation of acupuncture through the Health Professions Council as soon as is practicable. This has brought a successful conclusion to a process in which the BAcC has been involved for well over a decade and to which it has made a major contribution.

'DNA Collage 1' is on the cover of the new issue of Connecticut medicine and it is a 'snapshot' of variations in the genome sequences of 62 people.

The University of California, San Diego Medical Center's Hyperbaric medicine Center is part of a nationwide effort to compile and evaluate data in order to validate whether cancer patients being treated for radiation-related wounds heal more quickly and more thoroughly with hyperbaric oxygen therapy.Each year in the United States, approximately 1.2 million Americans are diagnosed with cancer, half of whom receive radiation therapy.

Metabolex, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of proprietary new medicines for the treatment of metabolic diseases, announced that it has completed enrollment in a 180-patient Phase 2 trial of MBX-8025 in overweight or obese patients with high cholesterol and triglycerides.