The decades-long decline in smoking by Americans has stalled for three years, the first time smoking rates have leveled off for that long since the federal government began collecting statistics more than 40 years ago.
The Food and Drug Administration called on physicians yesterday to warn cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy that certain anti-anemia drugs led to tumor growth and decreased survival in some patients.
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, Nov. 7 -- Developers of a failed AIDS vaccine announced Wednesday that it appeared to be ineffective among some people with a preexisting immunity to a virus that causes colds and may have raised their vulnerability to AIDS.
Federal authorities have announced that a Bethesda nursing home already under scrutiny by state officials in connection with the deaths of two patients could lose its Medicaid certification this month because of concerns about the care it provides.
After seven years of decline that left it teetering on collapse, Greater Southeast Community Hospital was sold yesterday to a private company that vows to rehabilitate the D.C. facility in appearance, services and reputation.
Being overweight boosts the risk of dying from diabetes and kidney disease but not cancer or heart disease, and carrying some extra pounds appears actually to protect against a host of other causes of death, federal researchers reported today.
They are the other casualties of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: spouses -- mostly wives -- of military personnel as well as their children, parents and even siblings struggling with the fear that accompanies combat separations or the wrenching readjustment that often marks the return home. Som...
Following recent recalls of Chinese-made tires, toothpaste and toys, the Bush administration yesterday announced a plan to improve the safety of what Americans buy and eat by intervening before imports reach the United States.
Life has gotten pretty salty in recent decades. And no, that doesn't just describe the growing number of R-rated movies, raunchy song lyrics and wild Hollywood celebrities.
On the wall above Alison Malmon's cluttered Dupont Circle desk is a photograph of her older brother, Brian, taken soon before he killed himself more than seven years ago. He was a 22-year-old college student and she was a college freshman.
Under pressure from government regulators around the world, Bayer announced yesterday that it is suspending global sales of a drug widely used to control bleeding during heart surgery, after a study found that patients receiving the medication were at increased risk of dying compared with those w...
Q I think Howard is more likely to know the answer to this question, but I'm tossing it out to both of you: I'm a big numbers guy who would like to create a better calories-burned calculator. What I'm finding online are calculators that take into account weight, distance and/or duration for cycli...
It would be easy to resent Perri Klass. Just look at her biography on the Web site of the National Library of Medicine: "While earning her MD [at Harvard, where else?] Klass bore her first child, knit baby sweaters, contributed articles to Mademoiselle and the New York Times as well as to scientific...
