AP - The effects are all too familiar: a fancy dinner, some fine wine and then, a few hours later, a racing heart and a pounding headache. But a device developed by University of California, Berkeley, researchers could help avoid the dreaded "red wine headache."
AP - Two-thirds of the foreign drug manufacturers subject to inspection by the Food and Drug Administration may never have been visited by agency inspectors, a government watchdog reported to Congress Thursday.
AP - People decisively favor letting their public schools provide birth control to students, but they also voice misgivings that divide them along generational, income and racial lines, a poll showed.
HealthDay - TUESDAY, Oct. 30 (HealthDay News) -- Among prostate cancerpatients undergoing a high-tech form of radiation therapy, exposure to ahigher amount of radiation over a shorter time span poses no added riskfor impaired sexual function, new research reveals.
HealthDay - FRIDAY, Nov. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Women who followed at least fivecertain lifestyle and diet behaviors were about 80 percent less likely tohave infertility from ovulatory disorders than women who followed none ofthe behaviors, a Harvard study concludes.
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Nov. 1 (HealthDay News) -- In 2006, introduction of the U.S.Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit increased the number of seniors'prescriptions by 158 million, at a cost of $32 billion to Medicare, a newstudy concludes.
HealthDay - FRIDAY, Nov. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Radiation seed implants, knownas brachytherapy, are just as effective for treating prostate cancer inmen 60 and younger as they are for older men, a new study finds.
