WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Researchers said Friday they are ready to launch a late-stage trial of vertebroplasty, a procedure in which a prosthetic vertebra is created by injecting plastic cement into the interior of a vertebra fractured by osteoporosis.
BOSTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The editor of the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine called on doctors who engage in clinical trials to boycott studies sponsored by pharmaceutical companies that do not fully live up to the spirit of legal requirements to register such research
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The new Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit will be a major driver of the health insurance sector in 2006, market analysts predicted, and certain health plans are already emerging as the front runners.
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Genentech said Friday it has filed for approval of Lucentis to treat age- related macular degeneration (AMD).
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- A published scientific paper suggests gold salts -- the treatment that may have prompted improvement in the first child ever diagnosed with autism -- can affect mental conditions.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Rsearchers said Friday they have shown that that being extremely overweight or obese ups the risk of developing Alzheimer's.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The discovery that South Korea's prestigious researcher Hwang Woo-suk may have falsified results in the paper he published on stem cell research could have far-reaching impact on the field for a long time to come, health policy experts said this week.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Getting adequate healthcare services to the disadvantaged was identified this week as the top concern of a top nonprofit hospital chain.
BOSTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Next week, Medicare's prescription drug benefit --with an estimated 21 million enrollees so far -- goes into effect amid controversy and confusion, but health policy experts say the new benefit will not only save seniors thousands of healthcare dollars, b
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- China's numerous outbreaks of avian influenza among poultry may have been caused by the widespread use of ineffective vaccines, it was reported Thursday.
Here's a new way to head off a hangover: Drink your New Year's toasts from a tall, thin glass. You'll end up consuming less alcohol that way and presumably feel
A Miami cardiologist thinks there would be a lot less need for caregiving if more people adopted the Mediterranean diet and banned trans fats from their diets.
SPRING VALLEY, N.Y., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Par Pharmaceuticals said Thursday it is OK'd to market a generic of Pfizer's Dostinex to treat hyperprolactinemic disorders.
BOSTON, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- A major international trial confirms that newer anti-cancer drugs can protect women against recurrence of breast cancer better than tamoxifen, considered the current gold standard, researchers said Wednesday.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Fifty-four thousand patients in a large medical practice near San Francisco are logging on to a Web site to get lab results, renew drug prescriptions or cancel a doctor's appointment, showcasing a successful health IT microcosm that computer experts hope
U.S. flags are seen in the rucksack of a soldier with the Army's 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment, The Old Guard, as he places flags at gravesites in Arlington National Cemetery as part of the Flags-In Memorial Day ceremony on May 24, 2012 in Arlington, Virginia. American flags were placed at each of the more than 220,000 grave markers in honor of those who served and Memorial Day. UPI/Kevin Dietshc
