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Potential side effects of methotrexate can worry rheumatoid arthritis patients. But there is good news -- long-term treatment with the drug appears safe according to study results published in the...

Women with hormone receptor negative first tumors have twice as much risk for developing a second breast cancer as women with HR-positive tumors, according to a study published online July 9 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

Washington - More than 300 people were forced to evacuate a London-bound British Airways jumbo jet in Phoenix on Friday night when fumes were detected in the cabin, officials said. The plane carryi...

??The U.S. government's new tobacco regulations spell out the words, size and color of new cigarette warning labels -- but despite much publicity about tough new warnings, don't expect to see any for three years.????Some public-health advocates worry it's a sign that federal action to cut smoking will come only slowly and cautiously -- a concern they'd had ever since the nation's No. 1 cigarette-maker, Henrico County-based Philip Morris USA, came out for regulation nearly a decade ago.????The new law requires stark, black and white labels covering half the pack with warnings such as 'Cigarettes cause cancer' or 'Smoking can kill you.'????But it also calls for warnings with color images, giving the U.S. Food and Drug Administration two years to come up with guidelines for them. Cigarette-makers would then have 15 months to start putting new warning labels on packs.????That means that it won't be until 15 months after the graphic-warning guidelines are published, in June 2011, that any n

Although the fact that we generate new brain cells throughout life is no longer disputed, their purpose has been the topic of much debate. Now, an international collaboration of researchers made a big leap forward in understanding what all these newborn neurons might actually do. Their study, published in the July 10, 2009, issue of the journal Science, illustrates how these young cells improve our ability to navigate our environment.

Women with hormone receptor (HR) negative first tumors have twice as much risk for developing a second breast cancer as women with HR-positive tumors, according to a study published online July 9 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Christina A. Clarke, Ph.D., of the Northern California Cancer Center in Fremont, Calif.

Starting in October 2009, Springer will publish The HUGO Journal in cooperation with the Human Genome Organisation (HUGO). Formerly published at Springer as Genomic Medicine, The HUGO Journal has a new design, new features and a new editorial team. Members of HUGO will receive free access to the journal online and be able to purchase print subscriptions at discounted rates.

Twenty-five per cent of Crohn's disease patients have a mutation in what is called the NOD2 gene, but it is not precisely known how this mutation influences the disease. The latest study by Dr. Marcel Behr, of the Research Institute of the MUHC and McGill University, has provided new insight into how this might occur. The study was published on July 9th in the Journal of Experimental Medicine.