(Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Thursday touted the immediate benefits small businesses will receive from his healthcare reforms, in his second speech this week promoting the sweeping plan to a skeptical public.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Traffic-related air pollution may be linked to a higher death rate among people who initially survived strokes, hint study findings from the United Kingdom.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - More and more Americans are landing in the hospital due to poisoning by powerful prescription painkillers, sedatives and tranquilizers, according to a report released today. City-living middle-aged women seem particularly vulnerable.
Breastfeeding does not only give enough benefits to an infant but it also cements the bond between a mother and her child.
The TAC and optometrists have warned that there will be more Australians who have difficulties in seeing the road after dark, with the end of daylight savings.
A new “super sunscreen” may be required to cut down Australia’s 900 melanoma deaths per year. Scientists from the University of Queensland are investigating the effectiveness of highly protective sunscreens and whether a more potent version is needed.
The sudden death of the young mother, Claire Murray, 25, has triggered more controversy over the liver loan given by the West Australian government, which cost $258,000.
A program design to support women during cancer treatment is being offered for the first time at Yarra Ranges Health in Lilydale.
This coming May you can help in the fight against cancer by simply making your own cuppa and take part in Cancer Council's popular annual fundraiser, Australia's Biggest Morning Tea.
Orchardists in Victoria have been given the opportunity to taste new varieties for pears after years of their breeding process.
The scientists at the University of Queensland are investigating the effectiveness of highly protective sunscreens and whether a more potent version was needed and required.
A French company is recalling a brand of breast implants which may have been used on thousands of Australian women.
New figures showing hundreds of ambulances were turned away from Melbourne hospitals in a three-month period last year mean the Victorian government has put lives at risk, the state opposition says.
China - In Linlou village, Henan, a grandmother Zhang Ruifang,101 began developing a mysterious protusion on her forehead that looks like a horn last year.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The flu shot is safe for most kids with egg allergies, a new report in Pediatrics shows.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - If most new mothers could follow medical experts' recommendation to exclusively breastfeed for six months, the U.S. might save $13 billion in healthcare and other costs each year, a study published Monday suggests.
PARENTS who worry their children do too much schoolwork and extracurricular sport can take heart - it may be keeping them from being glued to more television.
A study showed that Australian women who go under cosmetic surgery often have unrealistic expectations about it and the risk involved with it.
A study has shown that Australian women who went under the knife usually have unrealistic expectations of cosmetic surgery and the risks involved.
In a study in Occupational and Environmental Medicine, researchers found out that women during her mid 30's exposed to petrol products and synthetic fibers could treble the risk of developing breast cancer after menopause.
Blonde women are traditionally described as fun loving and less intelligent, but a new study reveals that they earn seven percent more on average compared to other women with other hair colors.
Northern Territory (NT) police has confiscated about 16 kilograms of kava drugs that was en route to a remote island community.
A study has discovered, Raloxifene - a synthetic estrogen currently used to treat osteoporosis - has positive effects on postmenopausal women affected with schizophrenia, whereby more rapid recovery from psychotic and other symptoms seen in the test group compared to control groups.
Australia has a pill-popping obsession, consuming more than 40 million pills per day, about two per day for every man, woman and child.
Canberra infectious diseases specialist warns that Australia's hospitals could not cope if there was an outbreak of influenza more virulent that last year's swine flu.
Health groups have used Easter, one of the most gluttonous days of the year, to call for restriction on junk food and alcohol advertising.
Thaliomide, the sedative drug taken by mothers to reduce morning sickness, half a century ago, which resulted in high risk of birth defects, treats a rare inherited blood disorder, according to recently reported lab experiments.
Thirty-six million Americans have chronic sinus troubles. Millions more-perhaps 1 in 7 people-suffer from rhinitis, a fancy name for stuffy nose. They may now benefit from the new research conducted by Melissa Pynnonen and her colleagues at the University of Michigan.
Weight-training injuries are on the rise, increasing by nearly 50 percent between 1990 and 2007 in the United States, researchers have found.
TWO mothers with disabled children have launched a national grassroots movement they hope to turn into one of the most powerful single-issue campaigns in Australian politics.
