The Wisco Research analyst wrote, "any outbreak of Mad Cow Disease, Swine Flu, or Avian Flu poses potentially significant risks to the business. ...

When a child can't join in a game of softball or kickball because the dust and dirt may send them into an Asthma attack, that child's Asthma is not under ...

(ABC) - Patients with heart implant devices that help keep them alive literally have to make life and death decisions. Cardiologists are being advised to ...

... new marketing application for its drug candidate denosumab, asking regulators to approve it as a treatment for bone damage suffered by cancer patients. ...

A few years ago in Hong Kong, there was a bad case of bird flu outbreak. Tens of thousands of chickens were destroyed and the city banned raising chickens ...

Lynche feels only time can heal his pain of missing that golden moment. Lynche added that it was not his choice but he was rather bound to that for the sake ...

If the disguised food causes a reaction, the person has an allergy. But in practice, most doctors are reluctant to use food challenges, Dr Riedl said. ...

BROSSARD, Quebec (AP) -When the Montreal Canadiens turned the page on their first century earlier this season, Ken Dryden invited current members of the ...

It cites results from research by the Boston University School of Medicine showing that people with Alzheimer's retain verbal information better when it ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children who live in neighborhoods plagued by violence may have a higher risk of asthma than those who grow up in more peaceful ...

By Kristina Fiore, Staff Writer, MedPage Today Respondents to a telephone survey reported that 1.4% of children had peanut allergies, up from just 0.4% a ...

By Alaric DeArment WOODCLIFF LAKE, NJ (May14) Drug maker Eisai and the Alzheimer's Association are calling for nominations for the 2010 CARE Pharmacy Award, ...

The American Cancer Society Relay for Life team at Santa Fe welcomes all students, faculty and staff this summer to put their names in for the 2010 Relay ...

While popular wisdom might hold that heart disease is primarily a man's health concern, it is the No. 1 killer of women in America. ...

The Orange County Health Department said Friday a 74-year-old woman died from the swine flu. The woman's death brings the number of H1N1-related deaths to ...

Although food allergies affect between 1% and 10% of the population, guidelines for the treatment and management of these conditions are lacking, ...

By DAVID REILLY Federal Reserve officials took pains this week to dispel any notion that their support of Europe's $1 trillion bailout meant US taxpayer ...

A motorist died at the roadside near Somerset West, in the Western Cape, on Friday after an apparent asthma attack, paramedics said. ...

The Palestinian Authority (PA) Ministry of Agriculture said the bird flu epidemic will likely wipe out the town's poultry stock. ...

BY JOEL MORENO AND KOMO-TV STAFF SPANAWAY -- A meeting set up to help assuage the concerns of Spanaway Lake High School parents backfired on Thursday night ...

Well, who was often more than three hours of overtime ended up with a risk of heart disease by 60 percent higher than those who let fall the pen at the end ...

If you think you have a food allergy - and more than 30 percent of Americans think they do - a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical ...

By Anne Harding, Reuters Childhood asthma is less common in neighbourhoods with high economic potential and strong community vitality, new research shows. ...

It has become widely believed that taking an aspirin each day is a good way to prevent heart attacks. Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death ...

... candidates are targeted at the treatment of Amyloid A amyloidosis, Type II diabetes and certain features of metabolic syndrome, and Alzheimer's disease. ...

By WALECIA KONRAD A debate has broken out over how many people in this country really have food allergies. But whatever the numbers, parents whose children ...

Dr. Dennis Keefe, CEO of Cambridge Health Alliance and Dr. David Link, its director of pediatric asthma programs, assert that the financial incentives ...

Medication-overuse headache, or MOH for short, is a chronic disorder results from the overuse of certain types of pain medications. Ironically, many of the ...

Municipal official Sa'eed Hanun said doctors were monitoring local clinics carefully, and distributing information on symptoms of bird flu in humans to ...

Older white men like me are the worst when it comes to skin cancer rates. While the death rate from melanoma — the most severe skin cancer — has been ...

By Jody Smith Put it to music, and the person with Alzheimer's disease (AD) will be more likely to remember it. A study was done at Boston University School ...

Women show better results than men with device therapy to prevent the progression of mild heart failure, according to a study. Women with mild heart disease ...

The Alzheimer Society of BC is offering a free telephone workshop in June to allow people the convenience of learning from home. Driving and Dementia #1: ...

A new analysis, researchers reviewed previous studies to study whether sugar water solutions helped babies with pain when they were being immunized. ...

... and the Chief Medical Officer for England has advised that swine flu is likely to be the prevailing virus in the next seasonal influenza period. ...

By Jenna Ryan Hundreds of UCSB students and community members will take to the track today at 10 am to combat cancer with the sixth annual Relay for Life. ...

Chris Christie proclaim this week as Food Allergy Awareness Week (FAAW) will translate into greater attention, and hopefully, more funding, into finding a ...

“I go into days where I go into funks ... and the pain gets so bad. I go and I grab my guitar and I can put an old CD on and just jam along with it, ...

Thiruvananthapuram, May- (PTI) In the first swine flu fatality in Kerala after a gap of three months, a middle-aged man died of the deadly virus at a ...

By Bill Ordine BALTIMORE - In horse racing's Triple Crown series, the superstars may be the annual crop of promising 3-year-old colts and fillies who burst ...