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On a day when the major stock indexes were down significantly, the drug makers' shares got little traction despite their fairly strong reports.

Despite aggressive efforts to raise awareness in elders of the dangers of falling, a study conducted on Australians 60 and older reported that most did not consider themselves at any great risk, nor did they regard prevention information as relevant to them.

A team of Japanese scientists report that macrophages, immune cells that send out inflammatory signals to injured tissue, may be involved in atherosclerosis, according to a new study in the latest issue of Molecular Medicine, a journal published by The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research. A marker of macrophage activity found in plasma, FcγRIIIaMo is expressed in a small subset of peripheral blood monocytes and is present in human atherosclerotic plaques.

Cocktails of HIV drugs help patients live an average of 13 years longer - if they are lucky enough to get them, researchers reported on Thursday.

Results of a preclinical study involving the injection of myoblasts modified to express stromal derived factor-1(alpha) protein (SDF-1) into the scar tissue of the myocardium of rats, which suggest improved heart function, were recently presented at two scientific meetings -- the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) in Toronto, and the American Society of Gene Therapy Meeting (ASGT) in Boston.

The Times reports : Family doctors are prescribing fewer prescriptions for homeopathy than they were two years ago, new figures reveal.

A government report showing that Newfoundland and Labrador has more than 1,000 vacant positions for registered nurses is proof positive of a crisis in nursing care, a union official says.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A specially designed warm-up program can help female athletes prevent a common knee injury, U.S. researchers reported on Friday.

Although sleep deprivation is a condition approaching epidemic proportions, a new study suggest that changes accompany the aging process may include a need for less sleep. The report, published online in Current Biology, finds healthy older people lose some capacity for sleep. When asked to stay in bed for 16 hours in the [...]

The House Small Business Committee introduced a bill Wednesday that would help small businesses provide their employees health insurance by allowing the companies to form health insurance purchasing cooperatives and by offering them a refundable tax credit of 65% of the cost of the insurance, the Wichita Eagle reports.