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A new age-related macular degeneration discovery

Scientists have won a major battle in the fight against age-related macular degeneration, or AMD, a blinding eye disease that affects millions of people.

21 Feb 2008

New procedures and techniques speed Achilles tendon recovery

Many Achilles tendon surgery patients are getting back on their feet faster, thanks to new procedures and techniques.

21 Feb 2008

What foods should you strive to get into your diet?

Eating right is an ingredient to a healthy lifestyle – a lifestyle that can help reduce cancer.

21 Feb 2008

New scientific map shows Australia is not a hotspot for new diseases

An international team of scientists has warned that tropical regions are likely to become a future hotspot for new diseases; but fortunately Australia is not one of them.

21 Feb 2008

Common spinal problem eased with surgery

Researchers in the United States have found that people who underwent surgery for spinal stenosis had less pain two years later than those who decided not to undergo surgery.

21 Feb 2008

Doctors meet to get it right for new Orange hospital

The furore over the new Bathurst hospital which has been deemed dysfunctional by medical staff is now being followed by another uproar this time over plans for a new hospital in Orange in central western New South Wales.

21 Feb 2008

PNG black market in snake venom means over 600 die needlessly

Recent exposure by the Australian media has revealed that more than 600 people die needlessly in Papua New Guinea (PNG) from snake bites each year because corruption keeps stocks of anti-venom so low.

21 Feb 2008

PM says binge drinking an epidemic across Australia

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has said binge drinking in Australia has reached "epidemic" proportions and action needs to be taken to combat the growing problem of alcohol abuse.

21 Feb 2008

Coral alga may hold key to malaria prevention

A brown alga discovered in Sydney harbour by Sydney University scientists could provide the key to treating diseases that disable and kill millions each year

21 Feb 2008

Paraguay confirms 5 cases of yellow fever

Health authorities in Paraguay have confirmed 5 cases of yellow fever in the Department of San Pedro.

20 Feb 2008

Wyeth wins Maryland thimerosal autism case

Wyeth has announced that The Honorable Stuart R. Berger of the Circuit Court for Baltimore City in Baltimore, Maryland, has granted Wyeth's motion for summary judgment in the case of Blackwell, et al. v. Sigma Aldrich, Inc., et al - an alleged vaccine injury case claiming that Jamarr Blackwell's exposure to thimerosal-containing vaccines caused him to become autistic.

20 Feb 2008

How childhood abuse affects adult health care use and costs in women

Middle-aged women who suffered physical or sexual abuse as children spend up to one-third more than average in health-care costs, according to a long-term study of more than 3,000 women.

20 Feb 2008

New technique to identify, treat bacterial infections

A new technique developed by a University of Central Florida chemist will help physicians more quickly identify the bacterial infections patients have so they can be treated in hours instead of days.

20 Feb 2008

Tumor-killing virus selectively targets diseased brain cells

New findings show that a specialized virus with the ability to reproduce its tumor-killing genes can selectively target tumors in the brains of mice and eliminate them.

20 Feb 2008

Minocycline antibiotic may prevent Japanese encephalitis

Two researchers from National Brain Research Center (NBRC) suggest that a common antibiotic called minocycline may prevent children from death due to Japanese encephalitis (JE), or commonly known as brain fever.

20 Feb 2008

Poor women more likely to suffer from postpartum depression

Poor women in Iowa are much more likely to suffer from postpartum depression than their wealthier counterparts, a new University of Iowa study shows.

20 Feb 2008

Study identifies patterns of brain activation linked to the formation of long-term memories

Researchers at New York University and Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science have identified patterns of brain activation linked to the formation of long-term memories.

20 Feb 2008

Young children bear the brunt of cholera

A new study of the burden of cholera in three impoverished regions of the world, published February 20 in the open-access journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, found that young children bear the brunt of the disease.

20 Feb 2008

Single microRNA plays role in innate immune response

Over the last few years scientists have discovered hundreds of microRNAs - tiny RNAs that regulate the expression of protein-coding genes.

20 Feb 2008

Siblings of schizophrenia patients display subtle shape abnormalities in brain

Subtle malformations in the brains of patients with schizophrenia also tend to occur in their healthy siblings, according to investigators at the Silvio Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Shape abnormalities were found in the brain's thalamus.

20 Feb 2008