The largest-ever study of the long-term consequences of premature birth finds that children born early have higher death rates in childhood and are more likely to be childless in adulthood.

Britain plans to force pharmaceutical companies to share more information with regulators about clinical trials after an investigation recently concluded that GlaxoSmithKline PLC deliberately withheld information about an antidepressant.

While blacks who have an increased chance of developing colon cancer continue to lag behind their white counterparts in colonoscopy rates, the lack of a doctor referral stood out as the primary reason why high-risk patients of either race had

Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco conducted a retrospective review of MRI images taken before 80 prostate cancer patients had external beam radiation therapy. The MRI images were examined for details of tumor characteristics, and these were compared

The review, published in the March 25 online issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute , suggests that some of the 75 group-randomized cancer trials it studied may have reported these interventions were effective when in fact they

New research suggests the risks of oral sodium phosphate solution and tablets are rare but real, particularly for elderly patients.

Surgery wasn't an option, she was told, because there was literally no room to remove the tumor without damaging those vital organs. She was given six months to live.

The researchers found that people who live in neighborhoods with higher levels of poverty, lower levels of education, and more families headed by women are less likely than others to exercise. But this doesn't mean that poorer people are least

And one-quarter of the respondents said they had serious problems paying for the care they needed, while 79 percent said health care will be a top issue in this year's presidential election, according to the survey, sponsored by the AFL-CIO.

Although the findings need to be validated in more studies, there could be significant implications for patient care, experts say.

The first recognized outbreak occurred in January 2004 at a dog race track in Florida. Since then, there have been a number of outbreaks at other tracks and at animal shelters, human societies, rescue groups, pet stores, boarding kennels and

A team at Emory University found that that non-white women, women aged 72 and older, and women living in poor areas of the country were less likely to receive the SLNB staging test than those who were white, younger, or

We're trying to draw attention to this major problem," said lead researcher Dr. Adrian F. Hernandez, an assistant professor of medicine at Duke University in Durham, N.C.

The risk of mortality is increased for years after infancy. And as premature infants grow and try to start families of their own, their own reproductive rates are decreased and women born prematurely have an increased risk of delivering prematurely,

Here are possible reasons for ongoing asthma symptoms, courtesy of the American Academy of Family Physicians:

This is the first study where patients with relatively recent breast cancer were randomized to take either hormone therapy or to do alternative therapies," said Dr. Jennifer Wu, an obstetrician/gynecologist with Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. "Really, at

The American Cancer Society offers these guidelines for cancer screenings:

Physicians at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have demonstrated that children with bilateral Wilms tumor, a cancer of the kidneys, can retain normal function in both kidneys by undergoing a procedure called bilateral nephron-sparing surgery, even when preoperative scans suggest

Recent technological developments have made it possible for scientists to sequence an entire human genome, but these advances may be a mixed blessing.

A review of cancer screening studies shows that white women who are obese are less likely than healthy weight women to get the recommended screenings for breast and cervical cancer, according to researchers at the University of North Carolina at