Intravenous antibiotics can help people with symptoms of advanced Lyme disease, but some of these improvements end once the drug is stopped, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday. There has been controversy over how to treat people with the tick-borne bacterial

A SENIOR nurse threw a Down's syndrome patient on to a hospital bed and threatened to make him wear a nappy, a tribunal has heard.

WHEN Sean Bentley was born, his family's joy was tinged with sadness when they were given the news that he had a birth abnormality.

THE use of cholesterol-lowering drugs can reduce heart attacks by more than 25 per cent, researchers said yesterday.

PREGNANT women can safely drink a small glass of wine each day, according to new expert advice.

AS THE shops fill with dolls, robots and teddies, teams of inspectors are out to ensure they are safe, writes ALASTAIR JAMIESON

Women should no longer have to obtain the signatures of two doctors to have an early abortion, and the upper time limit for the procedure should remain at 24 weeks, doctors' leaders said yesterday.

Britain's deadliest outbreak of a hospital superbug, which killed scores of NHS patients, may trigger criminal charges.

A new study concludes that routine testing for HIV recommended by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) may violate many state laws.

Asbestos in the U.S. may be breathing its last gasps, with the Senate's recent passage of the Ban Asbestos in America Act this past week. It now moves on to the House of Representatives, where passage is expected to be

Mark Ganz, President and Chief Executive Officer of Regence, has been tapped to chair a prominent group of thought leaders and health policy experts convened by The Aspen Institute. The organization is launching a major initiative to reframe and broaden

The National Medical Association (NMA) announced the appointment of Alisa Mosley, M.A. as the Director of External Affairs. "Alisa has done a terrific job as the acting director over the past four months and members of the Board of Trustees

Broncus Technologies, Inc., a medical device company investigating the airway bypass procedure for the treatment of emphysema, has announced that the results of its open-label Exhale Drug-Eluting Stent feasibility study have been published in the October issue of the Journal

Pan-European collaboration is important for many clinical trials and essential for trials that are investigating treatments for rare diseases.

A fascinating new study is the first outside of North America to observe lower testosterone levels among married men.

Some studies have suggested that the rate of change of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels may correspond with prostate cancer survival.

A new website that explores women's decision-making about birth after a previous caesarean section is to be launched.

Like a crossword-puzzle solver who uses the letters in some answers to figure out others, researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and an international group of collaborators have used data on genes involved in inherited forms of breast cancer to identify

Nationwide Children's Hospital received a $299,779 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation made under its Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative to identify the linkages between the quality of nursing care processes and the quality of outcomes.

AMD) caused by a mutation known to produce disease in people, an important first step in developing treatments.