NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court decision on Thursday to uphold patent protections for genetic material that has been changed in the laboratory but invalidate patents for purely ...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The nation's largest experiment in delivering medical care in an innovative way has reduced costs and improved the quality of care even more in its second ...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Despite the more than $50 billion that U.S. pharmaceutical companies have spent every year since the mid-2000s to discover new medications, drugmakers have barely improved on ...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The long-awaited, controversial new edition of the bible of psychiatry can be characterized by many numbers: its 947 pages, its $199 price tag, its more than ...
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(Reuters) - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's choice of gastric banding has prompted questions about why he opted for a weight-loss procedure less favored by bariatric surgeons and patients.Lap-Band stirred ...
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Today the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case that calls into question whether human DNA can be claimed as intellectual property, and remain off limits to ...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Scientists have discovered yet another way to make a kidney - at least for a rat - that does everything a natural one does, researchers reported ...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The logic behind weight-loss surgery seems simple: rearrange the digestive tract so the stomach can hold less food and the food bypasses part of the small ...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A presidential ethics panel has opened the door to testing an anthrax vaccine on children as young as infants, bringing an angry response from critics who ...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Women who have ever had breast cancer might want to walk away from the brie, the butter and the black cherry (and every other flavor) ice ...
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February 24, 2013 1:03 pm by Begley, Sharon | 0 Comments
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Now there are 135.That's how many medical tests, treatments and other procedures - many used for decades - physicians have now identified as almost always unnecessary ...
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January 29, 2013 12:12 am by Begley, Sharon | 0 Comments
NEW YORK (Reuters) - It seems like a no-brainer.Since about 75 percent of healthcare spending in the United States is for largely preventable chronic illnesses such as Type 2 diabetes ...
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November 26, 2012 12:08 am by Begley, Sharon | 4 Comments
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wading into the incendiary subject of birth control for young teenagers, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) on Monday called on the nation's pediatricians to counsel ...
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October 16, 2012 12:00 am by Begley, Sharon | 0 Comments
In 2003, Congress killed an attempt to establish an FDA oversight committee on pharmacy compounding. It was the first in a series of failures to regulate compounding pharmacies, which has ...
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October 11, 2012 12:23 pm by Begley, Sharon | 1 Comments
NEW YORK (Reuters) - In Dendreon Corp's most important clinical trial for the controversial cancer therapy Provenge, researchers analyzed some of the data differently from how the company told U.S. ...
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