A slice of watermelon is shown at the Gutierrez Produce stand at the Dallas Farmers Market, Tuesday, July 1, 2008, in Dallas. Watermelons contain an ingredient called citrulline that can trigger production of a compound that helps relax the body’s blood vessels, similar to what happens when a man takes Viagra, said scientists in Texas. [...]

WASHINGTON - Scientists have new evidence that the brain chemical best known for regulating mood also plays a role in the mystifying killer of seemingly healthy babies — sudden infant death syndrome.
Autopsied brain tissue from SIDS babies first raised suspicion that an imbalance in serotonin might be behind what once was called crib death.
But specialists [...]

In this still photo taken from video provided by the New York Civil Liberties Union, Esmin Green lies face down on the floor in the psychiatric ward of the Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y., Thursday, June 19, 2008. Green, 49, had been waiting in the emergency room for nearly 24 hours when she toppled [...]

Newborn babies rest at a neonatal room of a hospital in 2007. European scientists have shed new light on the causes of the devastating, inexplicable syndrome known as sudden infant cot death, according to a study published Thursday.(AFP/File/Miguel Alvarez)

WASHINGTON (AFP) -
European scientists have shed new light on the causes of the devastating, inexplicable syndrome known [...]

LONDON (Reuters) -
An imbalance of a key brain chemical
could cause crib death, researchers said on Thursday in what
they called a chance discovery.

They created mice whose sudden deaths resembled crib death
in humans, and found that the key may be an out of balance
self-regulating system controlling the nerve-signalling
chemical serotonin.

Writing in the journal Science, they said [...]

A nurse takes care of a newborn in a maternity ward of a hospital. A US man who was born a woman before undergoing gender realignment surgery has given birth to a baby girl, US media reported Thursday.(AFP/File/Natalia Kolesnikova)

LOS ANGELES (AFP) -
A US man who was born a woman before undergoing gender realignment surgery has [...]

A Bosnian pharmacist displays Swiss drug maker Roche’s Tamiflu bird flu anti-viral tablets at a pharmacy in the capital Sarajevo February 18, 2006. (Danilo Krstanovic/Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -
Two rival flu drugs, Tamiflu and
Relenza, work equally well to fight the symptoms of influenza
in children, Japanese researchers reported on Thursday.

Doctors can feel free to choose either drug [...]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -
The U.S. government proposed a 3
percent inflation increase in 2009 Medicare rates for
outpatient services at about 4,000 U.S. hospitals, which will
also impact medical imaging, diagnostic and other health care
services.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which
spends billions on Medicare health insurance for 44 million
elderly and disabled people, proposed the payment rates on
Thursday [...]

A pile of tomatoes are seen on display at a wholesale produce market in Washington, June 12, 2008. (Jim Young/Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -
As more Americans get sick while
health officials look for the cause of a salmonella outbreak
sweeping the country, consumer groups said on Thursday the Food
and Drug Administration must put emergency rules in place to
track the [...]

Europas größter Facharztverband unterstützt das Aktionsbündnis Rettung der Krankenhäuser”. Angesichts immer höherer finanzieller Belastungen für die deutschen Krankenhäuser, drohen weitere Klinikschließungen und Personalabbau. Die Kliniken bluten finanziell aus. In dieser existenziellen Notlage der Krankenhäuser solidarisiert sich der Berufsverband Deutscher Internisten BDI e.V. mit den Forderungen des Aktionsbündnisses für eine ordentliche und nachhaltige Finanzierung der deutschen [...]