Boston Health News

Rituxan, a drug used to treat cancer and rheumatoid arthritis, may help slow the development of newly discovered type 1 or juvenile diabetes, researchers reported on Wednesday. The drug may interfere with the body's mistaken destruction of the insulin-producing cells...

Respiratory syncytial virus may take a greater toll than the better known seasonal flu among young children, U.S. researchers suggest. The finding resulted from an analysis at Children's Hospital Boston, based on patients seen in its emergency department during several...

This might sound strange but it seems to be quite common – people tend to lose all sense of time and place after sex. That is what doctors say. It is termed as Transient Global Amnesia or TGA which is...

I worked in the health care industry for six years. During my time in the field of health care insurance and after completing many health care related projects and researching several health care topics it became quite clear that there...

Vivus Inc. early Wednesday reported positive Phase III clinical results for its new drug avanafil for the treatment of erectile dysfunction, or ED. "These Phase III avanafil data not only confirm the robust efficacy we've seen in earlier trials, but...