In a bid to prompt more people to pledge organ donations, authorities will send 70 million U.S. households organ donor cards tucked in the envelope along...
WASHINGTON — Two Republican senators Monday proposed a family and child health care plan that would allow some families to deduct insurance costs on tax returns...
Patients awaiting new organs should be told how often transplant centers turn away potential donor organs for nonmedical reasons, such as the unavailability of surgeons, medical...
A 1972 memo by a Philip Morris scientist said focus groups sessions suggested Kool cigarettes were considered the best “after marijuana” smoke to maintain a ”high.”The...
The biggest map to date of human genes can now be seen on the Internet.This map, also published Friday in the journal Science, pinpoints the locations...
India– An appeal court on Thursday backed a mother who refused to accept an order that she must return her child back to Britain for a...
A large head-to-head comparison of angioplasty and clot-dissolving drugs for heart attack victims has ended in a draw.The study, performed on more than 3,000 patients, found...
People taking steroids should exercise, watch their diet and get hormone replacement therapy to reduce the risk of osteoporosis, or “brittle-bone” disease, a national group of...
Painkillers, usually given only after surgery, may do their best work before the pain begins, a new study suggests.The study, to be presented today to the...
New York Yankees first baseman Cecil Fielder dropped his trade demand Saturday night, one minute before he would have become a free agent.Fielder had until midnight...
