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The osteoporosis drug Zometa shows promise in breast cancer patients.

SAN ANTONIO (MedPage Today) -- For postmenopausal women, the investigational osteoporosis agent lasofoxifene (Oporia) may substantially reduce the occurrence of hormone-responsive breast cancer, researchers found. (Source: MedPage Today Hematology/Oncology)

Saarbruecken, Germany - A worker in a German meat factory has come down with the potentially fatal disease anthrax, but authorities said Thursday it had not come from the plant's meat. The man, a French national who commutes across the border to work...

SANTO DOMINGO.- The National District Prosecutor’s Office and the Public Health and Industry and Commerce ministries will enforce the law that bans smoking in restaurants, night clubs and discos. T...

The Fogarty International Center and the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, both part of the National Institutes of Health, jointly announce Harold Varmus, M.D., as presenter of the 2008 David E. Barmes Global Health Lecture.

The U.S. emergency care system received an overall grade of C-minus in a state-by-state analysis released on Tuesday by the American College of Emergency Physicians, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports (Park, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 12/10). For the analysis, the 'National Report Card on the State of Emergency Medicine,' an ACEP task force ranked the emergency care systems of the 50 states and Washington, D.C., based on 116 measures (May, Salt Lake Tribune, 12/9).read more

National policymakers should keep legislators from the Southern U.S. involved in efforts to address HIV/AIDS during the 111th Congress, the Southern AIDS Coalition said at a recent event during which the group also highlighted the effect of HIV/AIDS on women in the region, CQ HealthBeat reports.

Background:The emergence of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) hampers TB control. Ten provinces in China performed drug resistance surveys among tuberculosis (TB) patients in 1996-2004 to assess levels of drug resistance. Methods:Provincial drug resistance surveys included all isolates from newly diagnosed, smear-positive TB patients. Drug susceptibility testing (DST) against isoniazid, rifampicin, streptomycin and ethambutol was carried out in the provincial laboratories. For purposes of quality assurance, a random sample (11.6%) was re-tested by the national reference laboratory (NRL). Results:Of 14,059 patients tested 11,052 (79%) were new TB cases. The weighted mean prevalence of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) among all cases was 9.3% (range 2.2%-10.4%); 5.4% (range 2.1% - 10.4%) among new cases and 25.6% (range 11.7%-36.9%) among previously treated cases. Adjusting the drug resistance proportions using the re-testing results did not change the estimated national me

The National Geographic channel is airing a Photo courtesy of National Geographic Channel. fascinating special about identical twins on Sunday, December 21 at 9:00 p.m. ET. This program is...

President George W. Bush claims a national decline in teen drug use during his tenure, but enormous challenges remain in convincing young people about the dangers of marijuana and other illicit substances. . . .The presidential event is timed to the release of data from three studies. One examines drug use among teenagers; the others detail cocaine use.The president's main message: Overall drug use among youths is down 25 percent since 2001, when he took office. That figure is based on the new 'Monitoring the Future' study by the University of Michigan, a yearly report that looks at the behavior of eighth-, 10th- and 12th-graders nationwide.