By MIKE KERN That afternoon, two Philadelphia-area programs were one win away from making it to the Final Four. That had only happened once before, ...

Of all deaths in Colorado, 22 percent were due to heart disease; 6.5 percent were due to stroke, the third leading cause of death in Colorado; ...

Treating chronic pain can be a frustrating, even futile, endeavor, yet living with chronic pain portends a bleak future. Dick Almond has been on medication ...

By Sharon Salyer Patients are flocking to area clinics, seeking relief from runny noses, itchy eyes and stuffy heads caused by tree allergies. ...

Pregnant women are being encouraged to eat more grains nuts and cereal, or risk their children being born with asthma. Scientists at Aberdeen University say ...

To evaluate attitudes to prostate cancer screening with prostate-specific antigen (PSA) of men who complied with offered screening and those who declined it ...

All participants joined the study with an especially high risk of cardiovascular disease. The study sought to evaluate the effects on heart disease in ...

By Mick Cleary Paris in the springtime is a prospect that might make lovers swoon with delight and Englishmen collapse with dread. ...

In its effort to improve and expedite the disability determination process, the Social Security Administration will add early-onset Alzheimer's disease to ...

By Dr. YONG TSAI , MANAGING PAIN An allergy is defined as an abnormal sensitivity to a substance normally tolerated and generally considered harmless such ...

By JUDY BATTISTA When LaDainian Tomlinson completed his visit with the Minnesota Vikings last Thursday, he left with a Vikings jersey in hand. ...

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Total knee replacement (TKR) successfully relieves pain and improves function in patients with advanced knee arthritis, according to a ...

ELEANOR HALL: Now to the furore over the high rate of CAT scans in Australia, which the Medicare watchdog says could be increasing the rate of cancer. ...

Doctors on the New South Wales north coast say there has been a spike in patients with asthma. Experts are blaming the wet summer for the increase in the ...

Cancer patients at the end of their lives are losing out on benefit payments worth millions of pounds, according to a leading cancer charity. ...

Sherron Collins passed up the lure of the NBA for one more run with Kansas. John Wall, the biggest player on the biggest team in the country, has Kentucky ...

MEDICAL authorities have defended a blood test for prostate cancer, despite the creator labeling it as accurate as a “coin toss”. ...

Cancer” golf tournament is coming up on April 26 at Porters Neck Country Club. The event will benefit the American Cancer Society's New Hanover County 2010 ...

It is converted into morphine in the liver, and it is morphine that suppresses pain signals to the brain. A similar conversion of codeine to morphine occurs ...

The center is officially called the Foose Center for Alzheimer's Care, in honor of Rev. William Foose and his late wife Muriel. ...

By Adnan Rafique ISLAMABAD—The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and CARE celebrated International Women's Day Thursday in ...

By Tim Graham Wooed over the past four days, free-agent running back LaDainian Tomlinson chose the Jets over the Minnesota Vikings. ...

Kiera Echols' parents pressed for answers to the mysterious madness that took over her life; now Echols wants to help others. Bill Lackey/Bill Lackey Kiera ...

DEFOREST (WKOW) -- More than 50 volunteers shaved their heads to raise money for cancer research Sunday afternoon. The non-profit Saint Baldrick's ...

Not only that, the small creatures have similar genes to the particular human genes that mutate to cause Huntington's disease and Alzheimer's disease, ...

DREW Barrymore admits a lot of the pain in the relationship between the mother and the daughter in her first film as a director, Whip It, in which she also ...

By Marc Freeman, Sun Sentinel A new way of teaching math in Florida public schools next school year is sort of like addition by subtraction. ...

... has found that women who had taken the pill in the past had a 12% less chance of developing heart disease, cancer or stroke than other women. ...

The company's best-selling cancer drug, Avastin, missed goals for two cancer indications. Its experimental drug ocrelizumab, where programs for lupus and ...

In a subgroup of children who were previously diagnosed with asthma, 2 children taking the vitamin D supplement experienced asthma attacks while 12 children ...

But new concerns about the spread of bird flu (the H5N1 virus) via infected migratory birds - which presumably infect local populations of domestic birds ...

By Melody Gutierrez The Sacramento City Unified School District hired Sacramento River Cats spokesman Gabe Ross for the newly created chief communication ...

By Ed Susman HOLLYWOOD, Fla -- March-, 2010 -- A new staging system for non-small-cell lung cancer further stratifies cancer by size of the nodules, ...

Atlanta, GA - Abdominal aortic calcification (AAC) is a predictor of obstructive coronary disease and all-cause mortality, and the absence of AAC is a ...

KENT NEWS: Pregnant women and others eligible for the swine flu vaccine are being warned of the dangers of turning down the jab. Since the beginning of the ...

Just one week after announcing that a drug targeting Alzheimer's has failed to generate results, Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) said that three potential cancer ...

Danus McKinlay, 18, who suffered from diabetes and asthma, collapsed and died earlier this month. His death is thought to have been caused by a serious ...

He will also discuss how to control arthritic pain, minimize joint damage, when joint replacement is necessary, and how to improve or maintain function and ...

By Staff, City News Service Federal investigators cannot find evidence that a Toyota Prius that reportedly zoomed out of control up Interstate 8 in East ...

In the guidelines, the use of the commercially available test is limited to use among breast cancer patients who have hormone receptor positive tumours that ...