Oxfam international members protest outside the FAO headquarters in Rome ahead of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization summit June 3-5. Oxfam members staged the protest to alert the public opinion on the world food crisis and to ask the international community to find lasting solutions to solve the problem.(AFP/Tiziana Fabi)

ROME (AFP) -
World leaders gathered [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -
Boxers may suffer more that
split lips, broken noses, and concussions. A new study shows a
high rate of dysfunction in the brain's pituitary gland among a
group of retired Turkish boxers.
The pituitary gland — a small bean-shaped organ located at
the base of the skull - is considered the body's thermostat,
monitoring the function of [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -
Rheumatoid arthritis patients
with a high body mass index (BMI), the ratio of weight to
height used to classify people into weight categories, have
less joint destruction in the early stages of the disease than
do their lower-BMI counterparts, according to a report from the
Netherlands published in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.
“This is an [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) -
A promising vaccine to treat brain
cancer developed by Avant Immunotherapeutics Inc may also hold
promise against numerous other types of cancer, Interim Chief
Executive Anthony Marucci said in an interview.
Researchers on Monday said Avant's vaccine, licensed by
Pfizer Inc in April, more than doubled the survival time in
patients, with the most common and deadly type [...]

Alzheimer’s patient Kris Bakowski attends The Alzheimer’s Association town hall meeting about the early stages of the disease, Monday, May 12, 2008, in Washington. Alzheimer’s patients now are joining their counterparts with cancer and HIV to lobby through the halls of Congress for more money to hunt treatments. They’re advising top scientists to push for [...]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -
People who undergo a type of
psychotherapy in which they relive a traumatic event are less
likely to get post-traumatic stress disorder than those getting
another common form of therapy, researchers said on Monday.
The Australian study, which involved people who had
experienced a vehicle crash or a nonsexual assault, was the
latest to show the value of using [...]

young man smokes marijuana before the 10th annual ‘Marijuana March’ in downtown Toronto May 3, 2008. (Mark Blinch/Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -
Long-term heavy use of marijuana may
cause two important brain structures to shrink, Australian
researchers said on Monday.
Brain scans showed the hippocampus and amygdala were
smaller in men who were heavy marijuana users compared to
nonusers, the researchers said. The [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -
Babies who die from sudden
infant death syndrome (SIDS) are often found with their heads
covered by bedding, and now new research suggests that this
covering usually precedes death and may, in fact, contribute to
the cause of death.
This finding supports current recommendations to avoid head
covering to reduce the risk of SIDS, lead author Dr. [...]

CHICAGO (AFP) - Un vaccin expérimental a plus que doublé le temps de survie de patients atteints de la tumeur du cerveau la plus fréquente et aussi la plus meurtrière, selon une petite étude clinique dévoilée lundi.
Il s’agit du glioblastome multiple dont est atteint le sénateur démocrate Ted Kennedy, qui a été opéré de sa [...]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Le sénateur américain Edward Kennedy a été opéré lundi avec succès d’une tumeur maligne au cerveau diagnostiquée fin mai.
“Je suis ravi d’annoncer que l’opération subie par le sénateur Kennedy s’est bien passée et a atteint ses objectifs”, a déclaré le dr Allan Friedman, du Centre médical de l’université de Duke, en Caroline [...]