Medical News

Scientists believe they've discovered a correlation between height and cancer risk.

New findings point to the potential for a male birth control pill.

New England Journal of Medicine, Ahead of Print.

New England Journal of Medicine, Ahead of Print.

New England Journal of Medicine, Ahead of Print.

Everyone knows that exercise improves health, and ongoing research continues to uncover increasingly detailed information on its benefits for metabolism, circulation, and improved functioning of organs such as the heart,...

New England Journal of Medicine, Ahead of Print.

New England Journal of Medicine, Ahead of Print.

New England Journal of Medicine, Ahead of Print.

The FDA cited certain 'nonconformities' in St. Jude Medical's manufacturing practices at the Atlanta plant where it creates the heart failure monitor CardioMEMS HF system. The company previously faced a similar FDA warni...

Brazil has followed the European Union and announced Friday that it has suspended the production, sale and use of products from breast implant maker Silimed. The major implant manufacturer failed production standards aft...

Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Co. and its parent company Reynolds American Inc. are subjected to a class-action lawsuit. The complaint stems from the use of "natural" or "additive free" to describe American Spirit cigarettes.

The UK's Health Research Authority has approved a trial that will implant a uterus in the first group of 10 women. The trial aims to follow the success of a 36-year-old Swedish woman who gave birth to a baby boy via womb...

U.S. medical providers have been mandated to use the ICD-10 medical diagnosis codes to enhance the health care delivery system among facilities. The new codes are quite very specific with about 70,000 official patient co...

Washing the dishes can be an inexpensive option for stress relief but only when it is done the right way. Individuals who wash the dishes in a certain state of mind experience feelings of inspiration and reduced nervousn...

Government officials confirmed that a new case of mad cow disease had been identified in a UK farm. No threaths to public health were determined and experts deemed the case as isolated.

Currently in the market, Cyclosporine A and Tacrolimus medication prevent organ rejection in patients undergoing transplant surgeries. A Japanese study found these immunosuppressant drugs render mice unable to impregnate...

From 2013 to 2014, approximately 460,000 Medicaid recipients in New York received treatment for diabetes. State Controller Thomas DiNapoli announced that the growing number of diabetes-related treatments cost the state o...

The FDA approved a new drug to treat one of the most common and deadliest cancer types - lung cancer. An accompanying diagnostic test has been approved to detect patients who may benefit from the immune therapy drug.

Researchers at Chapman University in California discovered that taller males and those who belong to the upper-middle of the BMI scale are more likely to have more sexual partners compared to shorter and slightly lighter...

PITTSBURGH. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- When someone suffers a stroke, time is critical. For every few minutes that blood and oxygen are blocked, portions of the brain suffer irreversible damage. Now, a technique designed to r...

(University of Oxford) Oxford University researchers have identified a protein used by tumors to help them detect food supplies. Initial studies show that targeting the protein could restrict cancerous cells' ability to ...