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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Vivitrol to be available in monthly injection to treat alcoholism. It is also known as naltrexone. It will be produced by Cambridge Mass. based Alkermes Inc. in injectable form. It will be marketed and sold..

Chinese doctors have performed a partial face transplant on a Mr. Li, a victim of a bear attack. The operation was performed at the Xijing Hospital, a military facility in the northwestern city of Xian. Now China became only the second country to report.

President Bush is expected to approve a national pandemic influenza response plan. It identifies more than 300 specific tasks for federal agencies. The White House is eager to show it could manage the medical, security and economic fallout of a major…

The state Department of Insurance has launched a campaign to avoid rip-off health care schemes. It will educate consumers about discount health plans.

As health insurance costs have increased in recent years, Coloradoans have turned to discount health..

Federal officials have confirmed the existence of Mad cow disease in a British Columbia dairy cow. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said that the finding of mad cow disease in a Canadian cow does not affect the safety of Canadian beef.

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The World Health Organization report releasd on 7 April, World Health Day with a warning. It says that 57 nations in southern Africa and Southeast Asia are facing a serious shortage of health care workers. More than four million additional doctors,…

The main sources of information about Cancer are television soap operas, health campaigns and celebrities. It can be as well direct experience of relatives or friends’ parents with cancer. Parents sometimes misunderstood their children’s reactions…

American researchers are very close to create genetically engineered microbes. It will produce a less expensive version of the life-saving anti-malarial drug ‘artemisinin’.

University of California team led by Jay D. Keasling achieved the goal by…

Waterfowl, Shorebirds and Songbirds are arriving in the Alaska Peninsula, the Yukon Delta and the westernmost Aleutian Islands to begin mating. More than 40 species of waterfowl and shorebirds are considered susceptible to infection by H5N1.

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A Psychologist argues that human foetuses do not feel pain although it can produce response to a pain stimulus. According to the British Medical Journal, the basic physical mechanisms need to feel pain do not develop until the 26th week of…