health - "medicine"

Aug. 5, 2008 -- If hitting the hay means popping a pill, you're not alone. A new Consumer Reports survey shows that many Americans are 'problem sleepers' and one in five uses sleep medicine at least once a week ...

GE Healthcare, the US$17 billion healthcare business of General Electric Company (GE), announces broadening the use of its LOGIQ e, a leading compact ultrasound system to the medical team of the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE). This system will be used prior, during and after the 2008 Beijing Olympics, on all elite Spanish athletes.

US experts no longer recommend routine prostate cancer screenings for men 75 and older, saying the risks outweigh the benefits for that age group, a report published Tuesday in the Annals of Internal medicine said.

The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) has been formally notified by Celgene Europe Ltd of Pharmion Ltd's decision to withdraw the application for a centralised marketing authorisation for the medicine Orplatna (satraplatin) 10 mg and 50 mg capsules.

We can't get enough of complementary medicine - sales of herbal and homeopathic remedies have doubled in a decade and are worth 200 million a year.

A new report discovers adolescent girls who go through puberty early and have parents who do not nurture them, communicate with them or have knowledge of their activities appear more likely to display aggressive behavior. The study is found in the August issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent medicine.Early puberty in girls [...]

As testosterone progressively dominates the hormonal milieu during the menopausal transition, the prevalence of metabolic syndrome increases, according to a new study by researchers at Rush University Medical Center. The study suggests this may be a pathway by which cardiovascular disease increases during menopause. The study is published in the July 28 issue of the Archives of Internal medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.read more

University of Utah School of medicine researchers have developed a new tool that facilitates diagnosis of anemia related to chronic illness, as well as diseases of iron overload. The results of a study detailing the new tool are published in the August 2008 issue of the journal Cell Metabolism, a publication of Cell Press.

Understanding your asthma medicine is key to keeping asthma under control. But that's not as easy as it sounds, with several different classifications of asthma medicines available, along with medicines...

Former president praises French-led project to provide medicine for children in developing countries infected with HIV