Reuters - Swiss biotechnology group Basilea said it would resume recruitment of patients into a late-stage trial of an antifungal treatment in the first half of 2010 after a U.S. safety panel recommended the study's continuation.
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Graves' disease is an autoimmune disease that causes hyperthyroidism, the medical term for an overactive thyroid gland.
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Jan. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Almost 12 percent of children and adolescents in the United States use complementary or alternative medicines, known as CAM, according to Harvard Medical School researchers.
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Jan. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Despite the warnings that being overweight will kill you, a new Australian study finds that overweight adults over the age of 70 are less likely to die over a 10-year period than their normal-weight peers.
Scientists and health professionals have been fighting a seemingly endless battle with malaria for decades, but a recent discovery could finally lead to new treatments for the deadly disease.
AP - At least a half-dozen states are considering measures that would toughen restrictions on young athletes returning to play after head injuries, inspired by individual cases and the attention the issue has received in the NFL.
