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A new study has found that ulcerative colitis patients had a 41 percent reduction in colectomy after a year when treated with infliximab.

Walgreens (NYSE, NASDAQ: WAG), the nation's largest drugstore chain, celebrates its pharmacists and their commitment to community as part of October's American Pharmacists Month. Pharmacy and serving the needs of patients are at the heart of the company.

Ben Doherty reports from Padang, the city which bore the brunt of Wednesday's devastating earthquakeThe two-storey Doctor M Djamil hospital was once one of the most imposing structures in the rambling coastal city of Padang. Now it lies in abject ruins.Between the broken blue and white concrete and twisted metal, signs that this was once a hospital, a place of sanctuary, are clear. A twisted bed frame, wrapped in what might once have been a bedsheet, protrudes from the destroyed facade. Cupboards filled with bandages and drugs hang open.Those patients pulled out alive are being treated in a makeshift clinic, a tent in the hospital courtyard. They are wrapped in bandages taken from the debris, hooked up to intravenous drips dragged from the ruins.But rescue crews have not even begun to penetrate the pile of rubble at the hospital's front. Those trapped, alive or dead, will stay so for days, perhaps much longer still. The fear is that scores of bodies lie within. In the car park at what

Padang's medical resources have been overwhelmed by the disaster. A hospital even collapsed in the quake; hundreds of patients and doctors are.

Patient safety experts at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere are taking their prescription for avoiding medical errors in hospital care one step beyond already successful 'no fault, no blame' approaches, calling now for penalties for doctors and nurses who fail to comply with proven safety measures.

Ignoring the stress of medical training can lead to errors and doctors leaving the profession.

Influential surgeon who pioneered clinical scanning proceduresJohn Wild, who has died at the age of 95, was the father of modern-day ultrasonic scanning, a procedure that has brought immense benefit to millions, including pregnant women and cancer patients. Commencing in the late 1940s, his work anticipated by some 20 years the invention of the other two common scanning procedures - X-ray computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging - and has provided a universally used technique for visualising the soft tissues of the body.Wild was born in south-east London, the son of an accountant, and grew up in Chiswick. He attended Merchant Taylors' school in the City of London where, at 14, he invented a valve that allowed hot and cold water to flow evenly from bath taps, which he patented. In 1933 he began studying at Downing College, Cambridge, gaining a degree in natural science, and in 1942 he graduated as a bachelor of medicine. During the second world war, he worked as a surgeon at t

Moenchengladbach - A doctor on trial in one of Germany's largest hospital scandals allegedly applied a catalogue of dubious medical practices which some of his patients did not survive, a German court heard on Thursday. Over several hours, prosecutor...

A new study led by Mayo Clinic researchers has found that ulcerative colitis patients had a 41 percent reduction in colectomy after a year when treated with infliximab, according to a study published in the October 2009 issue of Gastroenterology. Ulcerative colitis, an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that causes chronic inflammation of the colon, is characterized by abdominal pain and diarrhea.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The very first doses of swine flu vaccine will start arriving in states and cities that ordered it on Tuesday, and might be sprayed up the first patients' noses by the end of the week, U.S. health officials said on Thursday.