N.O. Lawmaker Wants Higher Cigarette Taxes
A state lawmaker from New Orleans wants to increase taxes on cigarettes, to produce more revenue for health care programs in Louisiana.
60 pct of cancer patients try nontraditional med
With much of her lower body consumed by cancer, Leslee Flasch finally faced the truth: The herbal supplements and special diet were not working.
Police are investigating the three separate Raleigh shootings that happened Sunday.
The first shooting happened around 1 a.m. Police say two men got into an argument in the 1800 block of New Bern Ave.
FDA Approves Cancer Treatment For Dogs
The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first drug made specifically to treat cancer in dogs.
Police are investigating the three separate Raleigh shootings that happened Sunday.
The first shooting happened around 1 a.m. Police say two men got into an argument in the 1800 block of New Bern Ave.
2 Pa. state troopers shot, wounded; suspect dead
A man who kidnapped a boy in northeastern Pennsylvania was killed and two state police troopers were wounded in an exchange of gunfire after a Sunday night chase that ended in the Pocono Mountains, police said.
Dapagliflozin Study Demonstrated Improved Glycemic Control In Type 2...
PRINCETON, N.J. & WILMINGTON, Del. - Results from a 12-week study demonstrated that the investigational drug dapagliflozin, a novel, selective, sodium glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitor, produced greater improvements across all key glycemic measures studied [glycosylated hemoglobin level , fasting plasma glucose and post-prandial glucose ] in type ...
Obama Seeks to Show Skeptics $1 Trillion Health-Care Revamp Is Affordable
President Barack Obama , pressing Congress to pass health-care legislation this year, will outline to skeptical lawmakers how he would pay for a plan most experts say would cost more than $1 trillion, U.S. officials said.
Recruitment of reproductive features into other cell types may underlie extended lifespan in animals
In the sense that organisms existing today are connected through a chain of life -- through their parents, grandparents and other ancestors -- almost a billion years back to the first animals of the pre-Cambrian era, an animal's reproductive cells can be considered to be immortal.
Doctors Revive Practice Of House Calls
AKRON, Ohioa 'Some hospitals in Ohio are reviving the practice of making house calls.
