The Food and Drug Administration has approved sipuleucel-T for treatment of advanced prostate cancer in a much-anticipated ruling that marks the first approval of a vaccine for cancer treatment.
Being overweight or obese is associated with a womans higher risk of developing fibromyalgia, as is lack of exercise, according to new findings from a team of researchers in Norway.
The excess risk of all-cause mortality associated with intensive treatment in the ACCORD trial was associated with persistently high hemoglobin A rather than lowHbA.
The Food and Drug Administration will regulate the design and manufacture of infusion pumps in the wake of thousands of adverse event reports, the agency announced in an April 23 teleconference.
While oral and intravenous corticosteroids have been linked to an increase in certain risk factors for cardiovascular disease, a team of Japanese researchers has found the regular use of inhaled corticosteroids to be associated with a decreased incidence of carotid atherosclerosis.
An Institute of Medicine released April 20 recommends changing federal standards to require a marked reduction in the amount of sodium that can be added to food by manufacturers, restaurants, and food service companies.
WASHINGTON (EGMN) Tamoxifen and raloxifene offer women at high-risk of developing breast cancer two effective options to prevent the disease, based on 8 years of follow-up data for more than 19,000 women in the STAR trial.
President Obama signed legislation late on April 15 giving physicians another temporary reprieve from the 21% Medicare pay cut that, for all intents and purposes, was scheduled to go into effect at midnight.
An estimated 33.8 million new episodes of respiratory syncytial virusassociated acute lower respiratory infection occurred worldwide in children younger than 5 years of age in 2005, based on results of the first study to take a global view of this deadly infection.
