Decision Resources, one of the world’s leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that Merck KGaA/Oncothyreon’s Stimuvax vaccine earns Decision Resources’ proprietary clinical gold standard status in 2013…

A new study carried out in Hutterite communities in Canada revealed that giving kids and teenagers flu shots led to lower rates of flu in communities that followed such a strategy…

Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA), a bile duct cancer, is one of the major cancers in Northeast Thailand. This cancer is difficult to diagnose and has high metastatic and mortality rates. Overexpression of Met, a…

International disaster relief charity ShelterBox is responding to the news of destruction in Chile which has been hit by a massive earthquake. An initial ShelterBox Response Team (SRT) is currently…

Robotic surgical technology with its three-dimensional, high-definition view gives surgeons the sensation of touch, even as they operate from a remote console. A new study describes the phenomenon, called intersensory…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved velaglucerase alfa for injection (VPRIV) to treat children and adults with a form of the rare genetic disorder Gaucher disease.Gaucher disease occurs in…

A new US study suggests that acupuncture specifically designed for depression may reduce symptoms during pregnancy: although the study was small, the researchers say it is the first of its kind…

US and British researchers have genetically engineered a strain of flightless mosquito that may help curb the spread of Dengue fever, a flulike disease that is endemic to over 100 countries and…

High blood pressure is the second leading cause of death in the United States, triggering more than one-third of heart attacks and almost half of heart failures each year even though…

The ATS and the European Respiratory Society have issued official standards for the quantitative assessment of lung structure.

“This is the first concise state-of-the-art review of stereological methods for lung morphometry that formulates…