health - "medicine"

A new genomics project spearheaded by Santa Clara-based Iris BioTechnologies is looking for participants to offer information that will lead to more personalized medicine for the treatment of breast cancer and ...

A U.S. scientist says he and his German colleagues have created an experimental medicine that might mitigate the effects of Alzheimer's disease.

Wiesbaden - Alcohol, tobacco and the abuse of prescription medicines kill far more Germans yearly than illegal drugs do, federal statisticians said Tuesday in Wiesbaden. They put the year's death toll from diseases caused by legal drugs at 57,900 i...

Vitamin D is making headlines again. A recent report in the Archivesof Internal medicine found that lower blood levels of vitaminD are associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular-related deathand death overall.According to a current panel, some 50 to 60 percent of older people inNorth America and around the world suffer from a vitamin D deficiency.It has also been found that younger individuals face a similarscenario.

Over a quarter of Ethiopia's HIV/AIDS patients on drugs are not taking their medicine because of logistical problems but also due to religious beliefs, the head of a treatment body said on Tuesday.

Modern medicine is still unable to predict heart attacks. In spite of the heart that heart disease is considered to be one of the biggest killers in many countries of the globe, it is still unknown what leads to the development of a sudden cardiac arrest.

Main Category: Radiology / Nuclear medicine Also Included In: Neurology / Neuroscience Article Date: 20 Jun 2008 - 0:00 PDT rate article Tammie L.S. Benzinger, MD, an assistant professor of radiology in the ...

Greenville N.C., June 23, 2008 - Dr. W. Randolph Chitwood, Jr., a globally recognized cardiothoracic surgeon, has performed his 400th robotic-assisted mitral valve repair. Pitt County Memorial Hospital (PCMH), the teaching hospital for the Brody School of medicine at East Carolina University (ECU), was the site for this landmark cardiac surgery on Friday, June 20. Chitwood has performed more robotic-assisted mitral valve operations than any surgeon in the world.

A set of promising new anticancer agents could have unforeseen risks in individuals with heart disease, suggests research at Washington University School of medicine in St. Louis. The anticancer drugs - which go by the strange name of hedgehog antagonists - interfere with a biochemical process that promotes growth in some cancer cells.

Standard neurological exams of older adults are good predictors of future brain health and quality of life. These tests should become part of the physician's routine examination of older adults say faculty from the Indiana University Center for Aging Research in an editorial in the June 23, 2008 issue of the Archives of Internal medicine.