Efforts to create an artificial blood substitute to prolong life for wounded soldiers or bleeding car crash victims were set back Monday by a study saying the products have led to a 30% increase in the risk of death and a nearly three-fold chance of having a heart attack.
The findings in the Journal of the [...]

Nearly 70 percent of gynecologists in Italy have refused to perform abortions based on moral grounds, according to the Health Ministry, which has resulted in a 3 percent drop in abortions.

How will the world look in the year 2058? Sixty thinkers from around the world rise to that challenge in “The Way We Will Be 50 Years From Today,” a collection of essays edited by longtime journalist Mike Wallace.

The consensus view is that we’ll muddle through many of the issues that vex us today – [...]

These are infants at the edge of viability, weighing less than 2.2 pounds and born after 22 to 25 weeks of pregnancy, far ahead of the normal 40 weeks. About 40,000 babies a year are born at this very early stage in the United States.

The new method uses an online calculator developed for such cases [...]

Ruling Will Help Consumers Make Healthy Menu Choices: A federal judge today ruled that certain fast-food and chain restaurants in New York City must comply with a requirement to disclose calorie information on their menus, rejecting arguments from the state restaurant association that the groundbreaking city ordinance was preempted by federal law.

Millions of baby boomers are about to enter a health care system for seniors that not only isn’t ready for them, but may even discourage them from getting quality care.
“We face an impending crisis as the growing number of older patients, who are living longer with more complex health needs, increasingly outpaces the number of [...]

Zenit recently highlighted three key points regarding the human status of an embryo, according to Robert George, President’s Council on Bioethics member, and Christopher Tollefsen:

From the start, it is distinct from any cell of the mother or the father.
It is human in its genetic makeup.
It is a complete organism, though immature, and unless prevented by [...]

“I took on the conventional wisdom that an aging population is driving U.S. hospital bills higher. The truth is that a combination of spending on new construction and hi-tech equipment pushed the nation’s hospital bill to $648.2 billion in 2006 —up 7 percent from 2005. The uptick was part of a trend:  since 2000, outlays [...]

Dr. George Amofa, Deputy Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS)has urged medical practitioners to strictly adhere to the core values of the profession to help improve health care delivery.
He mentioned the six core values as people sensitivity, professionalism, teamwork, discipline, innovation and integrity.
Dr. Amofa gave the advice when he launched a magazine by the [...]

Donna Zammit’s first, tearful words to her husband Thomas after their baby daughter was born six weeks ago were: “I did this for Jamie.”
Strange words, but then baby Donatella was conceived with the primary intention of her becoming a “saviour sibling” to her nine-year-old brother Jamie, who suffers from the rare genetic blood disorder Fanconi [...]