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Eighty percent of American internet users, or some 113 million adults, have searched for health information on the internet, according to the ebizMBA site ( the e-business knowledge base ) . But only 15% of health seekers actually check the...

The National Institutes of Health announced Wednesday that 11 new cell lines from Dr. George Daley at Children's Hospital Boston and two lines from Ali Brivanlou at Rockefeller University in New York became the first additions to the NIH Human...

Cigarettes labor demonstration against the tax rising for tobacco in Indonesia For the most advanced countries, such as the United States , Japan, and European Countries, they give a tax for cigarettes or tobacco are relatively high and they also...

The famously pain-resistant Vikings might have approved of the latest fad sweeping Sweden. Nail beds are becoming popular with health-conscious consumers convinced that lying on rubber pads embedded with sharp, plastic pins is good for them. Hindu fakirs favour a...

The White House budget director said Wednesday that it may take decades for America to have an efficient health care system even if Congress passes a major overhaul this year. "It will be years to decades" before the nation has...

Naples — The Collier County Health Department will begin administering the second dose of vaccines to Collier County elementary school children today. Since the district’s first clinics began at schools on Oct. 27, more than 16,000 Collier County students received...

The federal health ministry on Monday put a thermal scanner at the Haj terminal of Karachi airport to prevent swine flu from entering the city through pilgrims returning from Saudi Arabia. Confirming the belated installation of the scanner at the...

The government-appointed panel that caused a furor last month when it recommended women begin getting regular mammograms at 50 instead of 40 basically called a do-over Wednesday, saying its original message was “poorly worded.” The mea culpa won’t come as...