In a search for what could be the ultimate cure for drug addiction, scientists have developed a vaccine which prevents the body from getting high.The hope is that it can stop people from falling back into a spiral of addiction if they have a relapse.
The most promising results so far have been with cocaine, but [...]

Watching her tend her ill son, there is no doubting the love Clare Ginns feels for her ten-year-old son Joshua. “Are you comfy?” she asks as she gently props up her boy with pillows on the sofa. “Now, let’s give you your lunch,” she says. She even manages to handle the pumping of liquidised food [...]

For centuries, man has searched for miracle cures to end suffering caused by disease and injury. Many researchers believe nanotechnology applications in medicine may be mankind’s first ‘giant step’ toward this goal. According to Freitas nanomedicine is:

The comprehensive monitoring, control, construction, repair, defense, and improvement of all human biological systems, working from the molecular level, [...]

France, Japan and Australia rated best and the United States worst in new rankings focusing on preventable deaths due to treatable conditions in 19 leading industrialized nations, researchers said on Tuesday.

Turning health workers into torturers: Last week, a judge reserved his decision and continued a temporary injunction to keep Samuel Golubchuk, an 84-year-old man with brain damage and multi-organ failure, hooked up to a ventilator and other life-support in a Winnipeg intensive-care unit. Mr. Golubchuk’s doctors want to stop the ventilator, believing it to be [...]

As the school bus rolled to a stop outside her Lake County home, Beth Jones adjusted the bright yellow document protruding from the pouch of her daughter’s wheelchair, making sure it was clearly visible. In bold letters it warned, “Do Not Resuscitate.”
The DNR order goes everywhere with Katie, including her 2nd-grade classroom at Laremont School [...]

A state law enforcement investigators’ report — obtained by CNN from a confidential source close to the investigation — into the deaths of patients at a New Orleans hospital in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina provides new details about the events that occurred at Memorial Medical Center.

Sources familiar with the investigation tell CNN that the [...]

Hundreds of hospice providers across the country are facing the catastrophic financial consequence of what would otherwise seem a positive development: their patients are living longer than expected.
Over the last eight years, the refusal of patients to die according to actuarial schedules has led the federal government to demand that hospices exceeding reimbursement limits repay [...]

Avoid gender biased care
Despite concerted efforts to fight two-tier medicine in Ontario, new evidence suggests that it is far more prevalent than anyone believed.
But the kind of two-tier medicine highlighted in a study to be published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal next month is not a result of public versus private care. It is [...]

Aging Boomers: Me Generation’s health concerns expected to propel biotech[Extract] By 1989, a boomer’s median net worth was $36,000, according to Paul Root Wolpe, president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. By 2001, it swelled to $107,000. Home equity included, that number now is about $400,000.
“Never before has an older generation controlled so much [...]