swine flu monitor

This document provides updated information on obesity and morbid obesity as risk factors for serious 2009 H1N1-related complications based on findings from recent studies.

ATLANTA (Reuters) - New research shows more patients who got drug-coated stents right after suffering a heart attack later died from heart-related problems than those who received older, cheaper bare-metal stents.

ATLANTA (Reuters) - When it comes to matters of the heart, women should be treated more like men.

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Use of genetic screening on heart patients helped cut hospitalizations related to the widely used blood thinner warfarin by nearly a third, according to a large study that marks a step forward in the fledgling field of personalized medicine.

ATLANTA (Reuters) - The addition of the Novartis blood pressure medicine Tekturna to current standard drugs in patients who had a heart attack failed to help prevent changes in the heart's shape and worsening of its blood pumping ability, according to data from a study.

Health Protection Agency publishes new figures for 2009

BOSTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators have requested more information on an inhaled insulin device being developed by MannKind Corp, sending the company's shares down 24.7 percent.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Popcorn and soda has filled the stomachs of generations of moviegoers, but with childhood obesity on the rise one studio head has a hankering to see yogurt and veggies at the concession stand, too.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Bathing severely injured intensive-care patients with antiseptic-soaked washcloths can cut their risk of developing certain types of infections, and also seems to help keep drug-resistant bacteria at bay, new research shows.

BOSTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators have requested more information on an inhaled insulin device being developed by MannKind Corp, sending the company's shares down 24.7 percent.