The efforts include an on-campus Y and stations for mobile clinics at 28 sites.After decades of simply trying to build classroom space, Los Angeles school officials have embarked on construction projects meant to enhance students' physical health, well-being and safety outside school hours.
Because of topographical quirks, Santa Ana winds funnel particulates to the beachfront community, even if fires are nowhere near.Long Beach is more than 40 miles from the nearest wildfire raging in Southern California. But its air pollution levels surged in recent days beyond the "unhealthy" level set by air-quality regulators.
The victory protects the biotech's anemia drug franchise from Roche's bid to introduce a competing medicine.In a decisive victory, biotech giant Amgen Inc. won a jury verdict Tuesday involving a patent case that could have allowed a competitor to muscle in on its lucrative anemia drug franchise.
The White House heavily edited congressional testimony given Tuesday by the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the impact of climate change on health, removing specific scientific references to potential health risks, according to two officials familiar with the documents.
South Africa is recalling millions of locally manufactured condoms after tens of thousands failed an air burst test, dealing a further blow to the country's campaign to prevent the spread of AIDS.
Hypoallergenic peanuts? Vitamin-rich rice? Calcium-filled potatoes? Biotech companies are working on the next wave of genetically engineered foods, but not without challenges.OPPONENTS call them Frankenfoods, man-made aberrations that should be banished from our grocery stores or at least clearly labeled so consumers know what they're eating.
Drunks swimming in gin, smokers in body bags and dopers living with their parents deep into adulthood. Those are among the public service ads shown in the past. But the government's new batch of obesity spots declines even to show a fat person, let alone wag a finger for gluttony or sloth.
New genetically engineered crops produce beneficial drugs for humans and animals, but some fear the experimental produce will make its way into the food chain.A new type of genetically engineered crop is taking root in American soil: so-called pharma crops, or plants engineered to make drugs for humans and animals.
Those diagnosed with cancer in one breast are pushing for the more aggressive procedure as a precaution, researchers say. There is no evidence it increases the odds of survival.The number of women having both breasts removed after a tumor is found in one increased by 150% over a five-year period, despite a lack of evidence that double mastectomies increase survival in most women, researchers reported Monday.
