It's estimated that as many as 600,000 children in the US who have asthma do not have health insurance, at least not consistently. Research out of the University of Rochester...

The FDA has just approved a brand new medicine for preventive treatment of asthma in adults and kids age 12 and older. The name of the drug is ALVESCO® (ciclesonide)...

Around 3.5 million children die every year because of lack of food or poor quality food, experts warn.

Boys who are short at birth have double the risk of suicide as adults, according to a study.

Women and men doctors have some divergent views about women and depression, according to a recent survey conducted by the Society for Women's Health Research, a Washington, D.C., based advocacy organization. Women doctors are more likely than their male counterparts to believe that women are specifically susceptible to depression during two key times of hormonal transition in a woman's life: puberty (67.5 percent to 48.2 percent) and perimonpause (92.8 percent to 67.

According to new research, smokers and ex-smokers with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), an untreatable progressive lung disease that usually leads to death within a few years of diagnosis, have a worse prognosis than non-smokers.Previous research had suggested that current smokers with IPF might live longer than ex-smokers, but the new study establishes that the data likely reflected a healthy smoker effect. Athol U. Wells, M.D.

Rates of circumcision vary widely across the nation, a phenomenon likely linked to regional variations in racial, ethnic and immigrant populations, as well as insurance coverage, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Circumcision is the surgical removal of foreskin from the penis of an infant boy. The operation is usually performed for cultural, religious, or cosmetic reasons rather than for medical reasons.

February is American Heart Month. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, claiming hundreds of thousands of lives each year. One of the precautionary measures people can take to prevent heart disease is to get a proper amount of nightly sleep. According to David A. Kristo, MD, medical director of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center's Sleep Disorders Center in Washington, D.C.

Help the Aged and HelpAge International are working in partnership with HelpAge Kenya and the Kenya Red Cross Society to alleviate the plight of older people caught up in post-election violence in Kenya. The organisations have already distributed appropriate food to many hundreds of older people, and are working to ensure that other relief agencies and the authorities recognise and address the particular needs of older people in this emergency.

Global public health efforts to reduce smoking are at odds with the interests of the tobacco industry. According to a case study published in the online open access journal Globalization and Health, competing tobacco companies co-operate via a global network of national and regional manufacturing associations to undermine public health measures to counter smoking.

Playing computer games can improve a surgeon's performance in the operating theatre, a study shows.

In his fifth and new self-published book Breathe, Freedom: Kicking the Crap Out of Cigarettes, Dr. Kevin Alderson, a clinical hypnotist and associate professor in applied psychology at the U of C, uses hypnotic suggestions and offers a host of other methods that he is confident will make readers kick the habit for good."If you want to quit, read this book and follow the program," says Alderson. "It's different from everything else out there.

Regulators have given scientists the green light to create human-animal embryos for research.

There are big variations in the amount of time a patient remains in hospital following standard surgery in England, research suggests.

Pregnant WomanSuprijono Suharjoto - Fotolia.comMost of the benefits of motherhood are intangible, emotional, and social. But here's some evidence that pregnancy gives you a gift of health -- an edge...

An NHS trust rules it will not allow a hysterectomy on a severely disabled girl to go ahead.

The most common type of asthma is allergic asthma. The allergic part could be related to seasonal type allergies, that only occur during certain times of the year, or they...

Biological Link Between BRCA1 and Breast Cancer Detailed U.S. News & World Report, DC - 11 hours ago

America is quickly approaching another anniversary. It's been nearly 10 years since drug companies have been able to market prescription medications directly to consumers. Back in the day peoples' jaws dropped when former Presidential candidate Bob Dole became the spokesperson for that revolutionary blue pill. What a stiff! (pun intended)

The following highlights recent news of state actions on cancer screening-related legislation and proposals. California: Assembly member Sally Lieber (D) on Monday introduced legislation (