The teenage birth rate declined in 2009 to the lowest level ever recorded in the past 70 years, the CDC says in a new report.
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Egyptian Health Minister Ahmed Sameh Farid says one person was killed when he fell off a bridge, and 596 have been injured in pitched battles between government supporters and opponents in Cairo’s main square. (Feb. 2)
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Grown-ups need to keep vaccinations and booster shots current — just like kids do.
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A new antibiotic, fidaxomicin, is as effective as vancomycin in curing C. diff (Clostridium difficile) infections, and may be better at reducing recurrences, new research shows.
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The CDC says in a new report that about two-thirds of adults in the U.S. who have high cholesterol levels and about half who have high blood pressure are not being treated as effectively as they could be, unnecessarily raising their risk of stroke or heart attacks.
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A new set of genetic variants has been implicated in the search for genetic risk factors that could lead to the development of Parkinson’s disease.
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Widely available disease-modifying drugs that are recommended early in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis are not being prescribed nearly as much as they could be.
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The daughters of women who suffer strokes may be at increased risk of having a heart attack and also at increased risk of stroke, new research indicates.
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It’s becoming a yearly tradition — PETA submits a TV ad of scantly clad women reveling in their love of vegetables, the networks are reluctant to air it, and the whole debacle gets labeled ‘controversial’. But does anyone else just find the whole marginally sexually exploitative enterprise exhausting more than anything else? Can someone ask PETA to move on from these predictable promo campaigns already? … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Patients treated with Avastin, a top-selling cancer medication, appear to have a 50% increased risk of dying from treatment-related adverse events compared to the use of chemotherapy alone, a new research review finds.
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