NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Thousands of AIDS patients in India are not receiving treatment on time, underscoring huge challenges the country faces as it combats the disease, the Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria said on Thursday.
India, with 2.27 million patients, is among the top ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - With the advent of folic-acid supplementation of certain foods, few Canadians are now getting too little of the B vitamin, a new study estimates -- in findings that question the need for children and men to get additional folic acid from vitamins.
The study does not ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. reforms will slightly accelerate the rise in healthcare spending, according to a survey released on Thursday, handing Republicans more ammunition as they attack the Obama administration's legislative victory.
The survey, conducted by U.S. Centers for Medicare and ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Exposure to extremely low-frequency magnetic fields (ELF-MFs)--emitted by anything from power lines to appliances or improperly grounded wiring--is not likely to increase children's risk of developing brain tumors, the authors of a new analysis conclude.
Researchers ...
The three-judge panel of the appeals court said in a brief order that it put on hold the judge's ban to give it sufficient opportunity to consider the merits of the administration's emergency request for a stay.
U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth last month ruled that the research violated U.S. ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Medicare patients with more doctors to choose from do not necessarily get more or better care, researchers reported on Thursday in an analysis demonstrating how complicated U.S. healthcare reform will be.
The Dartmouth Atlas analysis questions the Obama administration's ...
The gadolinium-based contrast agents (GBCAs), which are intravenous drugs used to help make diagnostic tests such as MRI scans or angiography easier to read, can cause a rare and potentially fatal condition known as nephrogenic systemic fibrosis in kidney disease patients, the FDA said.
"The ...
They hope their findings may eventually help doctors better tailor cancer treatments and also lead to the development of drugs to treat these forms of cancer.
The findings, published by two separate teams of researchers in the journal Science and the New England Journal of Medicine, also suggest a ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Younger chief executives with high testosterone levels may be more likely to try a hostile takeover -- and to get burned in the attempt, Canadian researchers said on Wednesday.
They found age was clearly linked with aggressive takeover behavior, and did a careful but ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Transmission of the AIDS virus seems to be "out of control" among gay men in France despite an overall fall in the number of new HIV cases in the country, according to a study published on Thursday.
Scientists from the French National Institute for Public Health ...
