MelaFind, a new melanoma detection device manufactured by MELA Sciences, has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) after being rejected by the agency less than a year ago.
A surge in the number of new cancer cases and in expensive treatments for the disease cost the world around $895 billion in 2008, according to a study calling for urgent solutions.
Hospitals are marketing for the formula industry, says researcher
The health care division of Bayer AG has reported that its trial prostate cancer drug Alpharadin, in Phase III study, showed significant increase in overall survival in patients.
Combination of Afinitor® and Aromasin can buy you more time before the breast cancer situation worsens.
Lesser number of hospitals are found to be giving new mothers industry-sponsored baby formula samples as per a new study.
A wide range of lifestyle aspects which include stress, smoking, heavy drinking, and sun exposure could raise the risk for hair loss as per preliminary findings from new studies.
Young people across the globe are having more unprotected sex and know less about effective contraception options, a multinational survey revealed on Monday.
There is a severe shortage of life-saving generic drugs in the U.S., causing many hospitals to either go without the medications or buy them from third-party vendors at extremely high prices.
The damaging impact of chemotherapy on healthy cells can now be combated using a protein switch that initiates cancer cells to produce their own anti-cancer medication.
Cancer experts believe a treatment combined with chemotherapy and radiotherapy can cut down the risk of tumor recurring in a patient.
A new study of male and female identical twins has found that environmental or lifestyle factors like stress, smoking, heavy drinking and sun exposure could trigger hair loss, especially in women.
In a major breakthrough in prostate cancer treatment, a new drug has been shown to prolong survival in patients with advanced prostate cancer.
Doctors felt it would be unethical to deny the placebo group the drug
Computational scientists have forecasted the presence of numerous human proteins that are required by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to replicate itself. These, constitute a powerful resource for experimentalists who desire to discover new targets for human proteins that can control the spread of HIV, noted study authors.
Scientists at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging and the Georgia Institute of Technology have shown they can turn back the biological clock in human adult stem cells, which helps regenerate old or damaged tissues.
A trial drug from Germany's Bayer and Norwegian biotech Algeta is found to be prolonging the lives of patients with advanced prostate cancer.
Doubts over chronic fatigue syndrome and links to the XMRV virus, thought to be responsible for the condition, have been raised by a new research study.
Privacy curtains that often separate medical care spaces in hospitals and clinics are frequently contaminated with potentially dangerous bacteria, according to a recent U.S. study.
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 55 people in 14 states have now been confirmed as sickened from eating contaminated cantaloupe, while eight have died.
Wanda Sykes discusses breast cancer and double mastectomy on Ellen DeGeneres’ show.
Woman in California's Contra Costa County infected with West Nile virus.
Patients arrive at the hospital to get better, but the bacteria lurking in hospital privacy curtains could be making them sick, a new study warned.
According to research from the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health the number of self-reported mental health disabilities was 2 percent between 1997 and 1999. That figure increased to 2.7 percent between 2007 and 2009, which researchers say is almost nearly two million disabled adults.
Environmentalists can breath a little easier after the Food and Drug Administration announced that it was banning over-the-counter asthma inhalers, citing hazardous chemicals the spray emits.
I had breast cancer. Yeah, I know it's scary, comedienne Wanda Sykes revealed in an interview on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, airing Monday, Sept. 26.
The privacy curtains that separate care spaces in hospitals and clinics are frequently contaminated with potentially dangerous bacteria, according to a U.S. study.
The first clinical trial in Europe using human embryonic stem cells will take place at the Moorfields Eye hospital in London as reported by the Massachusetts-based stem-cell research company, Advanced Cell Technology.
Fourteen states have people infected from listeria-tainted cantaloupes.
Primatene Mist, the only asthma inhaler sold over the counter in the U.S., will be phased out by the end of 2011 because it contains chlorofluorocarbons that harm the Earth's ozone layer, the FDA said on Thursday.
