LONDON (Reuters) - An updated edition of a mental health bible for doctors may include diagnoses for "disorders" such as toddler tantrums and binge eating, experts say, and could mean that soon no-one will be classed as normal.
Leading mental health experts gave a briefing on Tuesday to ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rabbits implanted with artificial bones re-grew their own joints, complete with cartilage, researchers reported on Thursday.
Only a single compound called a growth factor was needed to induce the rabbits' bodies to remodel the joint tissue, said the team at Columbia ...
Such a test is important as imatinib resistance occurs usually to relapse patients, who tend to deteriorate very rapidly if they are given the wrong treatment.
In a paper published in Clinical Cancer Research on Thursday, the scientists said they developed a test which will help doctors tell if a ...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. General Assembly asserted a global right to water and sanitation in a resolution on Wednesday, but more than 40 countries abstained, saying no such right yet existed in international law.
Some 884 million people lack access to safe drinking water, more than 2.6 ...
Many industry analysts have expected Gemzar to lose U.S. marketing exclusivity in mid-November, when protection on the blockbuster drug's basic chemical patent lapses. But Lilly has contended that Gemzar -- approved to treat ovarian, lung, breast and pancreatic cancer -- should not lose ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Safeguards to protect patients from risky drugs should have less paperwork and more consistency, drugmakers and pharmacy representatives said this week during a U.S. Food and Drug Administration meeting.
The drug industry acknowledged the benefit of so-called risk evaluation ...
BOSTON (Reuters) - When someone collapses suddenly, mouth-to-mouth rescue breathing may not be necessary and could lower the chances of survival, researchers said in two studies on Wednesday that found chest compression alone is enough.
The findings add to evidence that the simpler approach works ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For weight-loss surgery, "Centers of Excellence" may not be any safer than their undistinguished peers, a study of 25 Michigan hospitals suggests.
Yet the overall rate of serious complications -- less than three percent -- was "relatively low," the ...
LONDON (Reuters) - A fleet of 6,000 bicycles for hire will hit the streets of central London on Friday when the city's mayor Boris Johnson launches a scheme intended to fuel a cycling revolution in the congested capital.
The initiative, which follows similar projects in cities including Paris and ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers have developed an implantable sensor that measures blood sugar continuously and transmits the information without wires -- a milestone, they said, in diabetes treatment.
The device worked in one pig for more than a year and in another for nearly 10 months with no ...
