health - "medicine"

The Clinton Foundation announced an agreement among several drug makers that it hopes will assure a supply of a crucial malaria medicine at reasonable prices for the world's poor.

Doctors of Chinese medicine across Canada have joined forces to fight the federal government's controversial Bill C-51, a proposed law that critics say will make many natural health products unavailable, including Chinese herbs.

A new study discovers a drug once approved as an antihistamine in Russia improved thinking processes and ability to function in patients with Alzheimer’s disease. Experts from Baylor College of medicine in Houston publish their findings in the current issue of the journal The Lancet. “More research is needed, but we are encouraged by [...]

There is a huge variation in cancer survival rates after treatment depending on the fact in which country cancer patients live and to which race patients belong.Professor Michel Coleman from London School of Hygiene and Tropical medicine led a team of 100 scientist who examined data from 1.9 million people living in 31 countries in 1990s. Researchers examined the data on cancer survival rates taken from national registries. The study is called CONCORD and it is mainly focused on breast, colon, rectal and prostate cancers.read more

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.read more

Compared to their victims, bullies experience a significantly higher risk of a wide range of health, safety and educational problems, according to research in the International Journal of Adolescent medicine and health.'We see that the [obvious] victims are not the only victims. The bullies are also victims of their own emotional problems,' said lead study author Jorge Srabstein, M.D., medical director of the Clinic for health Problems Related to Bullying at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C.read more

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.Prophylactic oophorectomy is the medical term for removal of healthy ovaries to prevent the potential risk of developing ovarian cancer later in life.read more

HIV gradually depletes the number of functioning B cells, an antibody that fights infections, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Experimental medicine that reveals another method used by HIV to affect the immune system, IANS/Thaindian News reports.According to researchers from

Researchers at Yale School of medicine have found signs of an apparent connection between bullying, being bullied and suicide in children, according to a new review of studies from 13 countries published in the International Journal of Adolescent medicine and health.

Every moment we live, cells in our bodies are dying. One type of cell death activates an immune response while another type doesn't. Now researchers at Washington University School of medicine in St. Louis and St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital in Memphis have figured out how some dying cells signal the immune system.