health - "medicine"

Vaccinating infants and toddlers is an almost universal practice in the United States. Vaccines to prevent flu are a regular part of medical care for senior citizens and at-risk patients. But, according to a study published in the August issue of the American Journal of Preventive medicine, the U.S. health care system is not very effective in getting vaccines to the adolescent population.read more

The Medicines Company (NASDAQ: MDCO) announced that the results of ESCAPE -2, a pivotal Phase 3 efficacy trial of its investigational agent CleviprexT (clevidipine butyrate) injectable emulsion, were published in the July issue of the journal Anesthesia and Analgesia. The clinical trial demonstrated that Cleviprex is effective and safe in the rapid treatment of acute hypertension after cardiac surgery.

Australia's regenerative medicine company, Mesoblast Limited (ASX:MSB)(PINK:MBLTY), today announced that the United States Patent and Trade Mark Office (USPTO) has granted a key patent, US Patent 7,399,632, through to at least the year 2019.

Overweight mothers give birth to offspring who become even heavier, resulting in amplification of obesity across generations, said Baylor College of medicine researchers in Houston who found that chemical changes in the ways genes are expressed - a phenomenon called epigenetics - could affect successive generations of mice. 'There is an obesity epidemic in the United States and it's increasingly recognized as a worldwide phenomenon,' said Dr. Robert A.

How can your feet lead you directly to a treatment that can help heal your entire body? By experiencing Third Coast Reflexology of Chicago, an integrative health approach that alleviates stress and pain and promotes wellness. Research in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) shows that stress causes 90% of all illness.

Stem cell researchers at the University of Miami Miller School of medicine are ready to enroll patients in another breakthrough study aimed at treating heart failure. They have received approval from the Food and Drug Administration for a study using a Helical Infusion catheter system to inject stem cells into the heart.

Researchers have repeatedly found signs of an apparent connection between bullying and suicide in children, according to a new review of studies from 13 countries. Nevertheless, there is no definitive evidence that bullying makes kids more likely to kill themselves. Still, 'once we see that there's an association, we can act on it and try to prevent it,' said review lead author Dr. Young-Shin Kim, an assistant professor at Yale University School of medicine's Child Study Center.

Prehypertension during young adulthood is common and is associated with subsequent coronary atherosclerosis, according to a study published in Annals of Internal medicine. Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, analyzed blood pressure measurements of 3,560 adults aged 18 to 30 from seven examinations over the course of 20 years.

For premenopausal women, the decision of whether to undergo a hysterectomy removal of the uterus is a challenging one. To make things more complex, added pressure to decide whether to remove the ovaries can arise a decision that researchers say relies more on the preferences of the woman or her surgeon than on evidence-based medicine.

A Johns Hopkins study published 63 years ago will make an encore appearance in the July 16 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) as part of a year-long retrospective celebrating JAMA's 125th anniversary by revisiting papers that changed the course of modern-day medicine. A full text of the original paper will be available online at http://jama.ama-assn.org.