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Several nonprescription cold medicines are being pulled from store shelves after manufacturer Wyeth on Monday started a voluntary recall and replacement program at retail outlets nationwide.
Drug makers pulled cold medicines targeted for babies and toddlers off the market Thursday, leaving parents to find alternatives for hacking coughs and runny little noses just as fall sniffles get in full swing.
As a child in Italy during World War II, he lived for years on the streets and in orphanages. Six decades later, as a scientist in the United States, Mario Capecchi joined two other researchers in winning the Nobel Prize in medicine.
Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, and their research, according to the Nobel Foundation:
Two American scientists and a Briton won the 2007 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for groundbreaking discoveries that led to a powerful technique for manipulating mouse genes.
Panamanian authorities have filed charges against the administrator of a Spanish company that allegedly sold a deadly chemical used in medicine that has killed at least 94 people in Panama.
Villagers in central China spent decades digging up bones they believed belonged to flying dragons and using them in traditional medicines. Turns out the bones belonged to dinosaurs, and now scientists are doing the digging.
The newly discovered “superhighway” (red tube) connects the ventricles (shown in light purple in the middle of the brain) with the tiny olfactory bulb (bottom left) (Image: Jonathan Westin)
New evidence has linked a commonly prescribed sleep medication with bizarre behaviours, including a case in which a woman painted her front door in her sleep.
A new gene test can predict how people with lung cancer will fare, say researchers, allowing aggressive chemotherapy to be targeted to only those who need it.
A synthetic chemical based on those found in marijuana may fix a problem that, paradoxically, affects the sperm of cigarette smokers.
Survivors of childhood cancer are highly likely to face chronic health problems later in life, researchers report. Doctors need to monitor these patients more closely for medical complications, experts warn.
It gives a new meaning to the phrase "publish or perish". Scientists have not been sharing information about bird flu fast enough, say experts. While the World Health Organization keeps a database of viral sequences, access has been restricted, and other researchers have hoarded data for fear of rivals publishing it without giving them credit.
Twice now, one central Minnesota mother has given birth in an unexpected spot. Jessica Reed, a nurse at the VA Medical Center, gave birth to her daughter Faith Reed last Sunday in the middle of her shift.
All too often, parents forget to handle with care the everyday medications we give our children, especially when it comes to the readily available over-the-counter medications.
Scientists in the United Kingdom have "decoded" the inscrutable language of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), revealing its strong chemical foundation in a way that may help scientists mine age-old Chinese medicines to develop tomorrow's new drugs.
...arguing there is no proof it helps the sick and disabled. Dolphins have infected humans with brucellosis, while they have sometimes been infected with chickenpox after close contact with people.
Robin Prosser, a Missoula woman who struggled for a quarter century to live with the pain of an immunosuppressive disorder, tried years ago to kill herself. Last week, she tried again. This time, she succeeded.
That is nearly a whole day's salt limit for an adult and more than the maximum recommended for children. Research shows high salt consumption over a number of years can lead to raised blood pressure, strokes, heart attacks and premature death.
It's a party being a parent nowadays. I heard this lingo over and over from my mother. As she observed my wife and I take care of our daughter when she was a child, she redundantly stressed how many trendy products are presently offered.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report that details the link between TB and HIV in the United States. Worldwide, TB is the leading cause of death among people infected with HIV.
Magnesium sulphate is an effective treatment for eclampsia - a condition that causes convulsions, coma and death during pregnancy - and it costs just $1 to treat.
British researchers have made an eye-popping discovery that could one day help people with vision loss see better.
As a doctor and researcher, Hans Rosling identified a new paralytic disease induced by hunger in rural Africa.
At the beginning of XIX century bromides were used in the role of anti-anxiety medications and at the beginning of XX century – their place was occupied by barbituric acid – barbiturates.
Medsphere essentially aims to turn VistA, an electronic medical-record system originally developed by the Veterans Administration and later made publicly available, into the Linux of healthcare.
Despite the fact that too much alcohol is bad for you, a patient has been deliberately pumped full of vodka at a hospital in Australia.
Taking an aspirin daily has proved to be quite effective in protecting heart and arteries, but only if you are a man.
This study shows that it is the difference in the child's ability to fight viruses that predisposes them to bronchiolitis in the first place. That poor ability to fight the condition is an innate feature of their immune system.
An article detailing new drugs based on a genetic mutation found in overmuscled animals. The drugs could be used in muscle wasting disease, to inhibit muscle loss in zero-g and in cancer treatment.
Homoeopathy involves treating illnesses with such extreme dilutions of herbs, animal substances and chemical compounds that frequently not one molecule of the diluted substance is left in the solution. Homoeopathy defies the known laws of science, not to mention common sense.
So how did it get there? The woman claims she is not sure. She says, "Around two months ago as I was brushing my teeth, my husband accidentally pushed me and the toothbrush in my hand broke. I was left holding the lower portion of the brush but couldn't locate the rest of it.
The heart-protecting benefits of aspirin may be available mainly to men, Canadian experts have suggested. Some research studies have suggested that the drug might cut heart attack risk by half.
Honey is enjoying new advocates as a wound-healing solution amid rising concerns about antibiotic resistance and a renewed interest in natural healing.
McALLEN — The government should allow health-care providers to refuse to provide services on the basis of their religious beliefs, a nurse and Catholic medical ethicist said following a Mass honoring health-care professionals Tuesday.
Congress should require that physicians use e-prescribing in Medicare by 2010, urges a broad coalition that describes itself as representing consumer, union, business, purchaser groups, and other prescription drug stakeholders.
Schizophrenia may occur, in part, because of a problem in an intermittent on/off switch for a gene involved in making a key chemical messenger in the brain, scientists have found in a study of human brain tissue.
Researchers have discovered a strain of bacteria resistant to all approved drugs used to fight ear infections in children, according to an article to be published tomorrow in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
Poster that shows the number of inhabitants per doctor in the world. It comes from a Dutch advertisement hanging at doctors rooms. Perhaps you would be surprised to know how many doctors per inhabitant Cuba has and how many EE.UU. or England has.
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