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- H.I.V. Is Spreading in New York City at Three Times the National Rate, a Stud...
by By SEWELL CHAN - Posted 5 hours ago
The virus that causes AIDS is spreading in New York City at three times the national rate ? an incidence of 72 new infections for every 100,000 people, compared with 23 per 100,000 nationally.
- Researchers Report Advances in Cell Conversion Technique
by By NICHOLAS WADE - Posted 5 minutes ago
Biologists at Harvard have converted cells from a mouse?s pancreas into the insulin-producing cells that are destroyed in diabetes.
- Diabetes Drug Tied to New Deaths
by By BLOOMBERG NEWS - Posted 27 Aug 2008 at 12:00am
The diabetes drug Byetta was linked to four more deaths in patients with pancreatitis, adding to two deaths announced by federal regulators last week.
- A Decline in Uninsured Is Reported for 2007
by By IAN URBINA - Posted 1 hour ago
The number of Americans without health insurance dropped by more than a million, to 45.7 million.
- Avoiding Dental Perfection With a Slight Twist
by By ANNA JANE GROSSMAN - Posted 8 hours ago
Patients and dentist work together to create that perfectly flawed smile.
- Look Closely, Doctor: See the Camera?
by By SARAH KERSHAW - Posted 1 hour ago
Have reality television and the Internet pushed people over the line?
- Cancer Test for Women Raises Hope, and Concern
by By ANDREW POLLACK - Posted 13 hours ago
An ovarian cancer test prompts questions on regulation and risk, and experts worry it may mean unneeded surgery.
- Books: A Doctor Transformed, Into a Patient
by By ABIGAIL ZUGER, M.D. - Posted 26 Aug 2008 at 2:28pm
Dr. Thomas Graboys? memoir of dealing with Parkinson?s disease stands out as a small wonder.
- Vitamin D Deficiency May Lurk in Babies
by By RONI CARYN RABIN - Posted 25 Aug 2008 at 11:22pm
Exclusive breast-feeding may be associated with vitamin D deficiency and rickets, recent research suggests.
- Amgen to Stop Offering Discounts on Anemia Drug
by By ANDREW POLLACK - Posted 1 hour ago
The company is halting some pricing practices that critics say were contributing to overuse of its flagship anemia drug Aranesp at a time of mounting concerns about the product?s safety.
- Purdue, Citing Research Misconduct, Punishes Scientist
by By KENNETH CHANG - Posted 6 hours ago
An appeals committee at Purdue University has upheld findings of misconduct by Rusi P. Taleyarkhan.
- Stanford to Limit Drug Maker Financing
by By GARDINER HARRIS - Posted 26 Aug 2008 at 12:23am
Stanford University is concerned about the practice that has led drug makers to pay for the annual refresher courses of most of the country?s doctors.
- War Veterans? Concussions Are Often Overlooked
by By LIZETTE ALVAREZ - Posted 26 Aug 2008 at 2:58am
The complications from concussions, a signature injury of the Iraq war, often are not recognized in singular ways.
- Thomas H. Weller, Whose Work on Tissue Led to Nobel Prize, Is Dead at 93
by By H. ROGER SEGELKEN - Posted 10 hours ago
Dr. Weller was a tropical-medicine specialist whose tissue-culture research in 1949 made development of the Salk and Sabin polio vaccines possible.
- Vital Signs: Prognosis: Chewing Gum May Help After Surgery
by By NICHOLAS BAKALAR - Posted 25 Aug 2008 at 11:26pm
Chewing gum after abdominal surgery may help in recovery, British researchers found in a review of several small studies.
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