As the final phase of the Affordable Care Act, sometimes called "Obamacare," begins, a new report shows that more than 45 million Americans still don't have health insurance. As troubling as that number may seem, it represents only 14.6 ...
Strong state alcohol control policies make a difference in efforts to help prevent binge drinking, a new study finds. Binge drinking -- generally defined as having more than four to five alcoholic drinks in a two-hour period -- is ...
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GlaxoSmithKline, the British pharmaceutical giant, says it will stop paying doctors to market its drugs at conferences and will no longer reward sales agents whose physician customers write the most prescriptions. These practices are ...
he body's biological clock may give West Coast pro football teams an advantage over East Coast teams during night games, a new study suggests. Researchers analyzed more than 100 National Football League games played between 1970 and 2011 ...
Nine of 10 women do not need and should not receive genetic testing to see if they are at risk for breast or ovarian cancer, an influential panel of health experts announced Monday. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) ...
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If it's not a holly, jolly Christmas for you, a U.S. stress management expert suggests being realistic and adapt to the situation. Dr. Amit Sood, a Mayo Clinic physician and stress management expert, said the holidays don't have to be ...
Morphine appears to reduce the effectiveness of the commonly used blood-thinning drug Plavix, which could hamper emergency-room efforts to treat heart attack victims, Austrian researchers report. The finding could create serious dilemmas ...
The European Commission has granted marketing authorization for GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK) cervical cancer vaccine Cervarix [Human papillomavirus bivalent (types 16 and 18) vaccine, recombinant] as a two-dose schedule for girls aged 9 to 14. ...
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AtriCure, a provider of Atrial Fibrillation (Afib) medical device, and Endoscopic Technologies, d/b/a Estech, have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which AtriCure has agreed to acquire Estech. Under the agreement, AtriCure ...
Eighteen medical communication companies (MCCs) received about $100 million from 13 pharmaceutical and one device company that released data in 2010, and all or most of the 18 MCCs were for profit, conducted continuing medical education ...
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Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics and Pfizer have entered into a master collaboration agreement to design, develop and commercialize diagnostic tests for therapeutic products across Pfizer’s pipeline. Pursuant to the terms of the ...
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Two Cedars-Sinai physician-researchers have been awarded grants totaling $4 million from the National Institutes of Health to study how the environment - both in the womb and in the hospital where the baby is born - can affect the newborn ...
A U.S. infectious disease expert says one of the most persistent flu myths is that the influenza vaccine can give a person the flu -- it cannot. Dr. Jorge Parada, medical director of the Infection Prevention and Control Program at Loyola ...
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St. Jude Medical, a medical device company, has obtained CE Mark approval in Europe for its 25mm Portico transcatheter aortic heart valve implantation system. The Portico valve system offers a minimally invasive treatment option for ...
U.S. allergists say a new long-term medication in under-the-tongue tablet form is promising and may even have the potential to cure hay fever. Officials at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology said allergy immunotherapy is ...