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Glioblastoma tumor size reduced by 50 to 70 percent.In a landmark study, Medical College of Wisconsin researchers in Milwaukee report that drugs used to inhibit a specific fatty acid in rat brains with glioblastoma-like tumors not only reduced new blood vessel growth and tumor size dramatically, but also prolonged survival. The study is the featured cover story of the August, 2008 Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism.read more

Federal regulators are working on a stronger label for a widely used diabetes drug marketed by Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Eli Lilly & Co. as deaths continue to be reported despite earlier government warnings.

The number of measles cases in the U.S. is at its highest level since1997, and nearly half of those involve children whose parents rejectedvaccination, government health officials reported Thursday.

Tobacco promotions and depictions of smoking in movies cause teenagers to start smoking, a study has found. The report by the National Cancer Institute found the tobacco industry spent more than $US1...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pregnant women who live through wars are more likely to give birth to a child who develops schizophrenia, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday in a study linking prenatal stress with the mental illness.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Tobacco promotions and depictions of smoking in movies cause teenagers to start smoking, according to a sweeping report on tobacco in the media released on Thursday.

Medicare officials' 2006 statements that they had reduced the number of fraudulent and improper claims were misleading, a draft report says.

Hormone replacement therapy can improve the quality of a woman's life, easing the distress of hot flashes, sleep disturbances and restoring lost sexual functioning, researchers reported on Thursday.

CHICAGO - Tobacco promotions and depictions of smoking in movies cause teenagers to start smoking, according to a sweeping report on tobacco in the media released on Thursday.

A comprehensive report released today from the National Cancer Institute - the leading federal agency on cancer research - provides the government's strongest conclusion to date on the media's powerful and ...