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Federal health regulators are weighing restrictions on Robitussin, NyQuil and other cough suppressants to curb cases of abuse that send thousands of people to the hospital each year.
Cough medicine - Robitussin - NyQuil - Health - Medicine

Astronauts, submariners and over-wintering Antarctic researchers have all been looked to for comparisons of the psychological plight of the 33 trapped miners in Copiapó, Chile. But a better analogy might be soldiers on extended combat duty.
Chile - History - Working Class - Miners' Strike 1984-5 - Shopping

An experimental drug from Bristol-Myers Squibb and Pfizer reduces the risk of stroke by more than half compared with aspirin, with no significant rise in major bleeding, researchers said on Tuesday.


Bristol-Myers Squibb - Stroke - Pfizer - Aspirin - Health

A cancer research charity estimates that 10,000 cases of breast and bowel cancer could be prevented every year in the UK if people engaged in more "brisk walking" or were generally more physically active every day...

As medical procedures go, cooling therapy is simple: Chill the patient about six degrees Fahrenheit — using cold intravenous saline, cooling blankets or ice packs — and wait 24 hours; then re-warm the patient slowly. But it's having lifesaving effects.

Myocardial infarction - Fahrenheit - Intravenous therapy - Health - Heart disease

Idera Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: IDRA), announced that it has achieved a milestone under its worldwide licensing and collaboration agreement with Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany...

ImmunoGen, Inc. (Nasdaq: IMGN), a biotechnology company that develops antibody-based targeted anticancer products, announced that Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, announced its receipt of a Refuse to File (RTF) letter from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the accelerated approval of the Biologic License Application (BLA) for trastuzumab-DM1, or T-DM1, submitted in July 2010...

ImmunoGen, Inc. (Nasdaq: IMGN), a biotechnology company that develops antibody-based targeted anticancer products, announced that Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, announced its receipt of a Refuse to File (RTF) letter from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the accelerated approval of the Biologic License Application (BLA) for trastuzumab-DM1, or T-DM1, submitted in July 2010...

For the first time, researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have identified and isolated adult mammary stem cells in mice. Long-term implications of this research may include the use of such cells to regenerate breast tissue, provide a better understanding of the role of adult stem cells in breast cancer development, and develop potential new targets for anti-cancer drugs...

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center has established a new center devoted to research and treatment of pre-leukemia blood disorders. Known as the Myelodysplastic Syndromes Center, it is one of the largest programs of its kind in the nation. Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are disorders interfering with blood production in the bone marrow...

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center has established a new center devoted to research and treatment of pre-leukemia blood disorders. Known as the Myelodysplastic Syndromes Center, it is one of the largest programs of its kind in the nation. Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are disorders interfering with blood production in the bone marrow...

Maybe you worshipped the sun in your youth or weren't as meticulous as you should have been with sunscreen. If so, take heart: Scientists at The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio are finding that certain plant substances, when given in combinations, may suppress damage that can cause skin cancer...

Rare but devastating, eye cancer can strike anyone at any time and treating it often requires radiation that leaves half of all patients partially blind. But a new technique developed by Scott Oliver, MD, assistant professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, may change all that...

U.S. health officials are set to rule on whether a faster-growing, genetically engineered fish is safe to eat in a decision that could deliver the first altered animal food to consumers' dinner plates.


Genetic engineering - United States - Fish - Food - Biotechnology

A resurgence of bedbugs across the U.S. has homeowners and apartment dwellers taking desperate measures to eradicate the tenacious bloodsuckers, with some relying on dangerous outdoor pesticides and fly-by-night exterminators.

Bedbug - Pest control - United States - Arts - Television

Food and Drug Administration investigators have found rodents, seeping manure and even maggots at the Iowa egg farms believed to be responsible for as many as 1,500 cases of salmonella poisoning.


Iowa - Food and Drug Administration - United States - Business - Health

U.S. government scientists say more women will be giving birth by C-section for the foreseeable future.
Caesarean section - Childbirth - Health - People - Reproductive Health

Because of worries about Agent Orange, about 270,000 Vietnam veterans — more than one-quarter of the 1 million receiving disability checks — are getting compensation for diabetes, according to Department of Veterans Affairs records.
Agent Orange - Vietnam War - United States Department of Veterans Affairs - United States - Military

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Older people like reading negative news stories about their younger counterparts because it boosts their own self-esteem, according to a new study.
Reuters - NEW YORK - Western Europe - Seniors - Time zone

Flu shots are already available this year, and a record vaccine supply is expected — an all-in-one inoculation that now promises protection against that swine flu strain plus two other kinds of influenza.

Influenza - 2009 flu pandemic - Vaccine - Health - Infectious Diseases