Experts in intensive care and anaesthesia have predicted that the current swine flu pandemic could overwhelm critical care beds and ventilators in England…
Jul 24, 2009
The air in Beijing during the 2008 Olympics was cleaner than the previous year's, due to aggressive efforts by the Chinese government to curtail traffic…
Jul 24, 2009
The presumption of racial profiling of African Americans is systematically based on the motivation of police officers' racial prejudice; a number of…
Jul 23, 2009
NEW YORK -- New data collected at Columbia University Medical Center and by the Mount Sinai School of Medicine are helping researchers understand the extent to…
Jul 23, 2009
More than half of clinic patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) report they also drink heavily.
Jul 23, 2009
SALT LAKE CITY -- University of Utah researchers and their colleagues have identified the gene that is mutated in a hereditary form of a rare neuroendocrine…
Jul 23, 2009
PHILADELPHIA ?The accepted dogma has been that bone-forming cells, derived from the body's connective tissue, are the only cells able to form the skeleton.
Jul 23, 2009
A new University of Colorado at Boulder study shows the strongest evidence yet that noise pollution negatively influences bird populations, findings with implications for the fate of ecological communities situated amid growing urban clamor.
Jul 23, 2009
Scientists at Rice University and North Carolina State University have found a method of attaching molecules to semiconducting silicon that may help…
Jul 23, 2009
A first-of-its-kind RAND Corporation study has linked the rapid growth in health care costs in the United States with job losses and lower output among industries that commonly provide workers with health insurance.
Jul 23, 2009
DURHAM, N.C. -- Findings from the largest study to date comparing the efficacy of competing treatments for chronic hepatitis C infection (HCV) show that the…
Jul 22, 2009
Results of a long-awaited study of 3,070 American adults at Johns Hopkins and 118 other U.S.
Jul 22, 2009
PHILADEPHIA -- July 22, 2009 -- Shire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPGY), the global specialty biopharmaceutical company, today announced that a study published…
Jul 22, 2009
COLUMBIA, Mo. - Each day, thousands of people undergo chemotherapy treatments for different types of cancer, and it is widely known that patients are…
Jul 22, 2009
