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 MARIETTA, Pa. —  Malaria. Tuberculosis. Alzheimer's disease. AIDS. Pandemic flu. Genital herpes. Urinary tract infections. Grass allergies. Traveler's diarrhea. You name it, the pharmaceutical industry is working on a vaccine to prevent it. Many could be on the market in five years or less. Contrast that with five years ago, when so many companies had abandoned the vaccine business that half the ...

Monday, Oct.19 ( HealthDay New- Surfing the Internet just might be a way to preserve your mental skills as you age.

Monday, Oct.19 ( HealthDay New- Surfing the Internet just might be a way to preserve your mental skills as you age.

Technology appears to be having an affect on Critical Thinking Skills and Analysis, but also results in an increase in visual skills.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/images/2009/10/091021012847-large.jpg Dubbed a 'bionic eye,' a new artificial retina has been developed which has, in limited trials, effectively restored vision to the blind.

DENVER - The store has a television lounge and a pool table, and snacks and acupuncture are free for customers who drop up to $130 an ounce on 16 varieties of marijuana. But a reviewer of the business warns the decor looks a little cliche, what with the Grateful Dead posters on the wall and the Mexican-blanket tablecloths. The medical marijuana ...

 A $10-million grant to Nabi Pharmaceuticals of Rockville, Md., from the National Institute on Drug Abuse will fund a Phase 3 clinical trial of a new vaccine designed to prevent relapses among smokers -- the final step before the vaccine can be approved for general use. It is the first large trial of an anti-smoking vaccine.

Women who take the most common fertility drugs, progesterone and clomiphene, are at a greater risk to develop thyroid cancer than those who don't, according to a study by the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society. The 36-year study, which tracked thousands of women, discovered that women who took fertility drugs developed thyroid cancer at an increased rate over those ...

GAITHERSBURG, Md. - Federal health advisers said Monday an experimental kidney cancer drug from GlaxoSmithKline PLC can benefit patients by slowing the disease, despite some risk of liver damage. The Food and Drug Administration's cancer drug panel voted unanimously in favor of Glaxo's pazopanib pills for advanced kidney cancer, a rare but deadly form of the disease. Glaxo studies showed higher ...

Nanotechnology Animal Research Studies Show Promise for future new tumor shrinkage by use of bee venom and nanoparticles to selectively inject tumor cells in this 09/29/09 Health article in the Wall Street Journal.

BETHESDA, Md. - Calling scientific research a job-creating engine, President Barack Obama heralded $5 billion in new government grants Wednesday to fight cancer, autism and heart disease while boosting the economy. Obama described the money as crucial to improving public health and helping add jobs to an economy that has seen unemployment surge. Visiting the Bethesda campus of the National Institutes ...

Sep. 30--HAVERHILL -- Doctors hope a new drug that's getting a trial in Haverhill will offer relief to those who suffer from Alzheimer's disease. The drug -- Bapineuzemab -- might have the power to stop the deterioration of brain function that is associated with Alzheimer's disease, said Dr. Michael McCartney, an internal medicine specialist who practices in Newburyport and is working ...

A University of Chicago molecular genetics professor studying the origins of harmful bacteria died last weekend after contracting an infection linked to the plague, officials said Saturday. University hospital officials said there "does not appear to be a threat to the public" following the death of Malcolm J. Casadaban, 60, at the campus' Bernard Mitchell Hospital on Sept. 13. None of ...

This is just too funny for words.  Ya gotta just read it. But it makes a great point.

All I can link to is the abstract, but apparently a new pilot study (needs confirmation with a larger sample size) showed that frequent bedside testing of eye movements was more effective than MRI in diagnosisng AVS type strokes.

ScienceDaily (Sep. 18, 2009) — After two decades of improvement, the percentage of Americans without major heart disease risk factors is dropping, according to a report in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. “From a preventive health point of view, it’s important that individuals achieve as many of these goals as possible, and it’s disappointing that less than 10 percent ...

The U.S. government has approved swine flu vaccines made by Australia's CSL, Switzerland's Novartis, France's Sanofi Pasteur and Maryland's MedImmune, which makes an inhalable vaccine that might be available by the end of the month. (Win McNamee / Getty Images / September 11, 2009)

USC nursing student Sara Bandish gave her patient fluids, unaware he had a bowel obstruction. The next sound she heard turned her stomach, in more ways than one. SimMan 3G threw up. An incredibly realistic medical simulator, SimMan 3G is one of the stars of the new Clinical Simulation Lab at USC's College of Nursing. The high-tech manikin (the preferred medical ...

Space. Sound. Smell. Humans constantly process a slew of variables in their surroundings. According to new research, the wiring of the brain may be even more complex than we knew.

He lived 15 months with an incurable brain tumor, a little longer than usual for a patient in his late 70s. Perhaps equally important is that Sen. Edward M. Kennedy lived those months well - able to work almost to the end, to sail the choppy New England waters he adored, to help elect a president he supported, and even to ...