MEXICO CITY - Mexico’s health secretary says a team of health and agriculture officials has traveled to the United States to demand that Mexican tomatoes be cleared of any suspicion in a recent salmonella outbreak.
Jose Angel Cordova says the group will meet with U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials in Washington. Cordova’s comments were included [...]

WASHINGTON - A trio of experimental drugs has doctors hopeful that for the first time in decades, millions of people at risk of lethal blood clots may soon get easier treatment.
The first goal is a pill option for people who now need daily blood-thinning shots for weeks after knee or hip replacement surgery.
But the ultimate [...]

NEW YORK - Getting a lot of exercise may help slow brain shrinkage in people with early Alzheimer’s disease, a preliminary study suggests. Analysis found that participants who were more physically fit had less brain shrinkage than less-fit participants. However, they didn’t do significantly better on tests for mental performance.
That was a surprise, but maybe [...]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. drug reviewers have “several
major concerns” about the effectiveness data supplied by
Johnson & Johnson in a bid to expand the use of its antibiotic
Doribax (doripenem for injection), according to documents
released on Monday.

The Food and Drug Administration will ask an advisory panel
that meets Wednesday if the company has demonstrated Doribax is
safe and [...]

A health technitian prepares to treat a patient. More Americans are likely to suffer from kidney stones in the coming years as a result of global warming, according to researchers at the University of Texas.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Joe Raedle)

WASHINGTON (AFP) -
More Americans are likely to suffer from kidney stones in the coming years as a result of [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -
Elderly people who bring along
a companion when they visit their doctor may be more satisfied
with the care they receive than those who go it alone, a study
indicates.

“Patients' visit companions, hidden, but in plain sight,
are a valuable quality of care resource whose efforts, if
further optimized, could enhance the experience of care [...]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -
In a study, Amgen Inc's
experimental drug denosumab reduced the risk of osteoporosis
and fracture in men being treated with prostate cancer
medicines that can cause bone loss, the company said on Monday.

But investors remain focused on upcoming data that will
show whether the drug is effective in the larger market of
osteoporosis patients, and Amgen [...]

Children are shown playing in this file photo. British children’s brain development is being threatened by their failure to work with their hands in school and at home, said a report released on July 14, 2008. REUTERS (Reuters)

LONDON (Reuters) -
British children's brain development is
being threatened by their failure to work with their hands in
school and [...]

Alkoholiker altern schneller als andere Menschen und haben zudem ein höheres Krebsrisiko. Diese Forschungsergebnisse hat Professor Helmut Seitz, Ärztlicher Direktor am Krankenhaus Salem in Heidelberg, jetzt auf einem Kongress in Washington präsentiert.
Unter chronischem Alkoholeinfluss ist der Körper nicht mehr in der Lage, sogenannte freie Radikale unschädlich zu machen. Diese aggressiven, sauerstoffhaltigen Verbindungen werden mit dem [...]

Pioneering heart surgeon Dr. Michael DeBakey speaks after being presented with the Congressional Gold Medal during a ceremony in the Rotunda of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, in April 2008. DeBakey, whose clients ranged from actress Marlene Dietrich to Russian president Boris Yeltsin, has died in Houston, Texas, at the age of 99, media [...]