health - "medicine"

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Many people in Medicare with diabetes, high blood pressure and other chronic conditions stop taking their medicine when faced with picking up the entire cost of their prescriptions, researchers say....

There's been much in the news this past year or so about black box warnings for asthma medicines. One type of warning was applied to combination asthma medicines, such as...

Dr. Anand Germanwala, assistant professor of neurosurgery at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of medicine, is available to reporters to comment on aneurysms, including mechanisms, national statistics and new therapies. He can also define and explain the sometimes controversial issue of 'brain death.' Germanwala is also chief of cerebrovascular neurosurgery with extensive training and experience in brain aneurysms. For more on Dr.

Australian regenerative medicine company Mesoblast Limited (ASX:MSB)(PINK:MBLTY), announced that its allogeneic, or 'off-the-shelf', cell therapy product was safe and highly effective in preclinical trials for interbody fusion of the cervical spine in the neck.

BioVex Inc, a biotechnology company developing clinical stage treatments for cancer and the prevention of infectious disease, announced the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has accepted BioVex's Clinical Trial Application to conduct a Phase I clinical study testing the safety and immunogenicity of its lead infectious disease candidate for genital herpes, ImmunoVEX HSV2.

Young researchers presented innovative, early-stage research at the 16th Annual Summer Research Conference, a collaborative project of the AUA Foundation and the Society for Basic Urologic Research (SBUR). The AUA Foundation hosted the forum for young investigators to showcase and discuss the most cutting-edge research in sexual medicine.

(Carnegie Mellon University) MRI isn't just for capturing detailed images of the body's anatomy. Thanks to imaging reagents and technology developed by Carnegie Mellon, MRI can be used to visualize -- with 'exquisite' specificity -- cell populations in the living body. The ability to non-invasively locate and track cells, will greatly aid the study and treatment of cancer, inflammation, and autoimmune diseases, as well as provide a tool for advancing clinical translation of cellular regenerative medicine.

Five UCSF stem cell scientists have received New Faculty grants from the California Institute for Regenerative medicine, support that will allow them to pursue lines of investigation ultimately aimed at developing treatment strategies for such conditions as cancer, heart disease, tooth regeneration, liver disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The UCSF grants, which range from about $2 million to $3 million each, total $13.

(The Peninsula College of medicine and Dentistry) Research carried out at the Peninsula Medical School in the South West of England has discovered that obesity in later life does not make a substantial difference to risks of death among older people but that it is a major contributor to increased disability in later life -- creating a ticking time bomb for health services in developed countries.