Herbal medicines have been in use since the days civilization came intoexistence. Today the herbal medicines in various forms are...

A BYU-Harvard-Stanford research team has identified a molecule that is key to mothers' ability to pass along immunity to intestinal infections to their babies through breast milk.The findings will be published in the Nov. 1 issue of the Journal of

Uninsured children in families earning between approximately $38,000 and $76,000 a year are about as likely to go without any health care as uninsured children in poorer families.Nearly half of uninsured children in the U.S. went without any medical care

It included 242 people with Alzheimer's, 72 with mild cognitive impairment, and 144 with no memory problems. People with mild cognitive impairment have memory problems beyond what's normal for their age but not the serious memory problems associated with Alzheimer's

The effectiveness of either approach is closely tied to the principles of physics and factors like a baseball player's center of gravity, explained David A. Peters, a professor of engineering at Washington University in St. Louis.

Members of the task force evaluated more than 25 studies of breast-feeding interventions conducted in the United States and other developed countries and concluded that coordinated interventions throughout pregnancy, birth and infancy can increase breast-feeding initiation, duration and exclusivity (when

Dr. Kathryn A. Zug, of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., and her colleagues found rates of positive tests for at least one allergen were about the same among children (51.2 percent) and adults (54.1 percent). They compared 391 children

Researchers suspect that exposure to general anesthesia during these operations might have played a role in the jump in risk, according to lead author Charles DiMaggio, an assistant professor of clinical epidemiology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons'

Blood flow through malignant breast masses is often higher compared with normal tissue or benign masses. The Doppler ultrasound allows radiologists to detect vessels with higher flow speeds, which likely indicate cancer.

The main use is in women with small cervical cancers, in whom it is necessary to delineate accurately the extent of disease prior to fertility-sparing surgery," explained study author Dr. Nandita deSouza, co-director of the MRI Unit at the Institute

The results, stemming from an international study published in PLoS Medicine , found that patients receiving either of two methods of antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV had increased risk of death from conditions such as cardiovascular complications linked to three

Eleven percent, including Remicade (infliximab), used to treat Crohn's disease and rheumatoid arthritis, and Avastin (bevacizumab), used to treat cancer, have been issued a "black box" warning.

So say researchers who found that more than 3 percent of U.S. children and adolescents are uninsured or underinsured at some point during any given year -- despite having at least one parent with health insurance.

A new report says 30,000 people have used an Internet service that allows them to alert their sex partners that they may have been infected with syphilis, gonorrhea, HIV or other diseases.

This is a group we haven't had as much focus on in terms of suicide, because the death rates were higher in elderly white males, and there has been a lot of attention to teenagers and young adults," said lead

Here are suggestions to reduce your child's risk of catching -- or spreading -- a nasty bug, courtesy of the U.S. National Library of Medicine:

They evaluated 270 screening chest CT scans conducted over 42 months in 192 patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, which accounts for most head and neck cancers. The results were classified as either normal or abnormal.

Perfecseal, a global market leader in the medical device and pharmaceutical packaging industries, plans to begin operations in Suzhou, China, in November 2008. Prompted by the significant growth in the use of healthcare products and services in China, this expansion

WASHINGTON - Children who try drugs or alcohol before age 15 run a greater risk of being substance-...