Study finds human nose too cold for bird flu, even when combined with the human influenza virus.
Avian influenza viruses do not thrive in humans because the temperature inside a person’s nose is too low, according to research published today in the journal PLoS Pathogens. The authors of the study, from Imperial College [...]

Study finds people with depression often excluded from clinical studies and tend not to fare as well as other study participants.
A new study finds that reults from clinical studies used to gain Food and Drug Administration approval of common antidepressants are not applicable to most patients with depression. The study is published in the [...]

ZOLL Medical Corporation and FDA notified healthcare professionals of a Class 1 recall of ZOLL AED Plus Defibrillators distributed from May, 2004 through February 9, 2009. The recall was initiated because the device may fail to deliver a defibrillation shock, which could result in failure to resuscitate a patient during treatment of sudden cardiac arrest. [...]

By June 8, 2009, Raptiva will no longer be available in the United States.
Genentech and FDA notified healthcare professionals of the voluntary, phased withdrawal of Raptiva, a medication for treatment of psoriasis, from the U.S. market due to a potential risk to patients of developing progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML).
On 02/19/2009 the FDA issued [...]

Latest medical scandal from the vortex of medicine and Big Pharma impacts millions of patients over 12 years.and begs the question of who has responsibility for this massive fraud
The revelation that a highly respected anesthesiologist, Dr. Scott S. Reuben, faked twenty one published studies over 12 years has shocked the medical world. [...]

New report form the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) again raises more questions about the effectiveness of flu vaccines. The research is published in Journal of the American Medical Association.
According to a new report from the U.S. CDC most common strain of flu in the United States now resist to Tamiflu, [...]

A compact fiber-optic probe developed for the space program has now proven valuable for patients in the clinic as the first non-invasive early detection device for cataracts, the leading cause of vision loss worldwide.
Researchers from the National Eye Institute (NEI), part of the National Institutes of Health, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) [...]

Use of certain medications known as monoclonal anti– tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α) antibodies for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis appears to be associated with an increased risk for herpes zoster (shingles), the painful infection characterized by blisters, according to a new study in the JAMA.
There has been evidence from some studies that patients [...]

People with a family history of melanoma may have a greater risk of developing Parkinson’s disease, according to a study released today that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology’s 61st Annual Meeting in Seattle
The study involved nearly 157,000 people who did not have Parkinson’s disease. They were asked if their parents [...]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is notifying health care professionals and patients that Tyco Healthcare Group LP (Covidien) is recalling one lot of ReliOn sterile, single-use, disposable, hypodermic syringes with permanently affixed hypodermic needles due to possible mislabeling. The use of these syringes may lead to patients receiving an overdose of as much as [...]