Stem cell treatment for Scleroderma

LONDON – Some advanced lung cancer patients already treated with chemotherapy might be able to skip some of the bad side effects of another series of chemo by taking a pill instead, a study suggests. An international study showed patients on Iressa, an expensive, newer targeted treatment, survived about as long as those on another course of chemotherapy. "This will provide ...

While a colonoscopy is a very effective procedure for combating colorectal cancer, it may not be quite as good as previously thought, a new study suggests.

People with diabetes face a lot of painful and scary possibilities. Infections that won't heal. Toe, foot and leg amputations. Blindness. Kidney failure. Heart attack. Much of it can be avoided with diet, exercise and adherence to medical advice. Yet diabetes continues to disable and kill, and account for much of the country's health care bill. With so much at ...

 New research may lead to a way to keep new infections of the herpes simplex type 1 virus in its dormant state.

But on the whole, blaming insurance firms for runaway healthcare costs is a weak argument, because the insurance industry isn't all that profitable to start with. Some critics would like to see a healthcare sector that's entirely nonprofit, but most Americans seem comfortable with the existing system of for-profit healthcare providers, at least at some levels. Otherwise, the majority of Americans ...

MOSFELLSBAER, Iceland (AFP) – Anna Margret Bjoernsdottir never thought she would be forced to leave her once wealthy homeland, but after 18 months of economic upheaval she has decided to join the biggest emigration wave from Iceland in more than a century. "I just don't see any future here. There isn't going to be any future in this country for the ...

Identify the Symptoms   At some point, you're going to need to distinguish symptoms of the new-mom culture shock and its accompanying baby blues from a bona fide mood disorder. You can find a list of the standard symptoms for postpartum depression by clicking here, but better than that, I think, is the description actress Brooke Shields gives in her ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand – Sea Shepherd deliberately sank its own high-tech protest boat after a January collision with a Japanese whaling ship to gain sympathy, the former skipper alleged Thursday in a public spat with the conservation group's founder.

(CNN) -- It was 5:16 a.m. when the call came in to a 911 dispatcher in Madison, Wisconsin. The story, from Cathy Silver, came out staccato: Cathy's husband, Jim, was gagging, gasping for air. A nurse at the University of Wisconsin Hospital, Cathy could see that her husband, the father of four grown children, was in cardiac arrest

WASHINGTON – Federal banking regulators are examining whether mortgage companies cut corners on their own procedures when they moved to foreclose on people's homes, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Monday.

SAN FRANCISCO – Californians heeded warnings of legal chaos and other dangers and rejected a ballot measure Tuesday that would have made their state the first to legalize marijuana for recreational use.

NEW YORK – The Anti-Defamation League is criticizing remarks by Glenn Beck

‘Rudimentary robot was able to perform simple surgical procedures without human assistance.’ - Doctors and surgeons already make use of some types of robots to perform procedures where the precision of the operation required is often more than a human can consistently offer. Some researchers say that the day when these robots can perform procedures without the need for humans is ...

A recent poll by the American Nurses Association (ANA) found that about half of the 10,000 nurses surveyed are thinking about leaving their current jobs—because they're worried about inadequate nurse staffing levels. A new survey by the ANA show

A new study reveals many U.S. hospitals are not up to par when it comes to checking for colon cancer following surgery. Researchers at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago and the American College of Surgeons say hospital

BERLIN – A German doctor said Friday that surgeons have successfully removed a 40-pound (18 kilogram) malignant bone tumor from a Saudi Arabian woman. Dr. Heinz Zurbruegg, a surgeon at the private Capital Health clinic in Berlin, said the 35-year-old had only a few weeks to live when she arrived in Germany for care in September. But he said that after ...

BURNSVILLE, Minn. – The Minnesota State Patrol says a 6-year-old girl wandered into freeway traffic near Minneapolis, where she was struck and killed by an SUV. State Patrol Lt. Eric Roeske says Kallie N. Palmer had been playing at a friend's house Friday about 7:15 p.m.