health - "medicine"

Cancer Research UK scientists have shown that it may soon be possible to offer women a genetic test to assess their risk of breast cancer which could aid early diagnosis for those at high risk of the disease. Their findings are revealed in the New England Journal of medicine today (Wednesday).

Many people use 'alternative' or complementary products because they see them as a more gentle form of medicine. The German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in health Care has now analysed the latest research on several products and released the results along with a guide for consumers. St John's wort (hypericum), for example, could help ease mild depression, but it does not help with severe depression.

Berlin - People who purchase medicines on the internet should check the seller carefully because the risk of counterfeits is high, warned Manfred Schubert-Zsilavecz, president of the Frankfurt- based German Pharmaceutical Society (DPhG). Speaking rec...

Dr. W. Randolph Chitwood Jr. successfully performed his 400th robot-assisted mitral valve repair Friday, June 20, 2008. The surgeon has performed more of these surgeries than anyone else.The operation took place at Pitt County Memorial Hospital, the teaching hospital of the Brody School of medicine at East Carolina University, where Chitwood is a faculty member.The patient was a 38-year-old man.

Dr. Timothy S. Harlan, assistant professor of clinical medicine at Tulane University School of medicine, knows how important the right foods are for cardiovascular health.He also understands that it can be tough to stay on a healthy diet, so he launched his own website, http://www.drgoumet.com, to promote the joys of eating delicious food that promotes excellent health, too.

Sanofi-aventis and Bristol-Myers Squibb announced the launch of a new 300mg tablet of the antiplatelet PLAVIX® (clopidogrel), as approved by the European Medicines Evaluation Agency (EMEA) for the treatment of appropriate ACS patients (Unstable Angina, Non-STEMI* and STEMIâ?  patients' â?¤ 75 years of age eligible for thrombolytic therapy) in the UK.

Anthony Kidawa, a podiatrist for more than 35 years, knows how important it is for patients to communicate with their doctors, especially when it comes to their cardiovascular health.Kidawa ran the peripheral vascular clinic at Temple's School of Podiatric medicine for more than 30 years, and saw the ravages of poor cardiovascular health on the lower extremities first-hand.

ORLANDO, FL (UroToday.com) - Dr. Brannigan presented an evidence-based approach to history-taking from the infertile man. Modern methodologies of evidence-based medicine were introduced in 1992 by Dr. Sackett at McMaster University. Systematic, unbiased observations will decrease the reliance on opinion of 'authorities'. Level I evidence consists of prospective randomized clinical trials.

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 tol...

Since 2000, doctors at the American Sports medicine Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, have seen about a 5- to 6-fold increase in the number of serious shoulder and elbow injuries in young baseball and softball players.