The rate of decrease in the number of Americans who smoke have slowed down, and the percentage of smokers has held steady from 20 to 21 percent since 2005, according to the latest government data released on Tuesday. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) revealed that the number of adult smokers have declined between 2000 […]
Allergan, Inc., the maker of cosmetic product Botox, will pay $600 million to settle a federal investigation about its marketing practices of the top-selling drug. In a joint statement issued on Wednesday, Allergan and the Justice Department said that Allergan will plead guilty to a single charge of “misbranding”, a misdemeanor, for allegedly misleading doctors […]
A new single-dose malaria drug that may treat resistant strains of the dreaded disease has been developed by a team of researchers, according to a study published in the journal Science on Thursday. Clinical trials are scheduled later this year and the drug is said to very promising because of its potency compared to current […]
Mentally stimulating activities such as brain games, puzzles, and crosswords delay the progression of dementia but may accelerate it later in life, a new study reveals. The study, published in the journal Neurology, confirms that mental exercise protects the patients from memory loss, but the benefits of a sharp mind may come at a cost […]
The economic downturn, the worst since The Great Depression of the 1930s, may have caused the number of births in the U.S. to decrease for the second straight year, as more women chose to delay pregnancy and motherhood. Even as the total population rose slightly, the number of births dipped 2.6 percent to 4.14 million […]
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced Tuesday that some research using stem cells would continue, but new studies would be suspended following a ruling made Monday by a federal judge. The decision blocks President Barack Obama’s order in 2009 to increase funding for embryonic stem cell research. “I was stunned, as was virtually everyone […]
Scientists in the United States announced on Sunday that they had made another key step in the development of a drug against the dreaded African virus Ebola, which is feared to be used as a bio-terrorism weapon. They found a new treatment to be effective in 60 percent of rhesus monkeys who were test subjects […]
Exposure to pesticides such as malathion may put pregnant mothers at risk for having their children develop an attention disorder by age 5, a new study reveals. The researchers found that increased levels of pesticide metabolites, by-products of the chemicals, correlates with an increased risk of attention disorders, the study published in the journal Environmental […]
Federal health officials predicted Thursday that the outbreak of salmonella poisoning which spurred the recall of millions of eggs from one Iowa company will possibly grow, because reports of cases that occurred after mid-July have not come yet, said Dr. Christopher Braden, epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control. Dr. Braden said that nearly 2,000 […]
The deliberate, slow movements of tai chi are better for relief of symptoms, including pain, in sufferers of fibromyalgia than other stretching exercises, a research study by physicians published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. During a period of three months, 33 subjects were monitored performing tai chi’s movement and breathing exercises, said […]
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