http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15947778Nearly 7,000 out of just over 30,000 were thought to have been affected, while tens of thousands of appointments and tests were also hit across the UK. But emergency services were kept running as unions and managers agreed contingency plans ahead of the walko

 It is an uncomfortable question that, in today’s world, is often asked by expectant mothers who had more than one male partner at the time they became pregnant. Who is the father?With more than half of births to women under 30 now out of wedlock, it is a question that may arise more often.Now blood

For the first time, researchers have determined virtually the entire genome of a fetus using only a blood sample from the pregnant woman and a saliva specimen from the father.The accomplishment heralds an era in which parents might find it easier to know the complete DNA blueprint of a child months

http://news.yahoo.com/obama-add-50-million-aids-fight-150703350.htmlUS President Barack Obama on Thursday added $50 million to fight AIDS in the United States and launched efforts to treat two million more people abroad.“We can beat this disease,” Obama said at an event to mark World AIDS Day which

The more controversial of two papers describing how the lethal H5N1 bird flu could be made easier to spread was published Thursday, six months after a scientific advisory board suggested that the papers’ most potentially dangerous data be censored.The paper, by scientists at Erasmus Medical Center i

วันนี้ (10 มิ.ย.)นายวิทยา บุรณศิริ รัฐมนตรี ว่าการกระทรวงสาธารณสุข (สธ.) พร้อมด้วยนายแพทย์ไพจิตร์ วราชิต ปลัดกระทรวงสาธารณสุข เยี่ยมชมการฝึกซ้อมร่วมการปฏิบัติการช่วยเหลือผู้ประสบภัยพิบัติฉุกเฉินภาค สนาม ระหว่างชุดแพทย์สนามฉุกเฉินระดับตติยภูมิ (Medical Emergency Response Team : MERT) หรือชุดเมิร์ท กั

A federal health official’s ruling has cleared the way for 50 different types of cancer to be added to the list of sicknesses covered by a $4.3 billion fund set up to compensate and treat people exposed to the toxic smoke, dust and fumes in the months after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.The

วันนี้ (11 มิ.ย.) ที่ศูนย์ความเป็นเลิศด้านชีววิทยาศาสตร์ (องค์การมหาชน) หรือ ทีเซลส์ (TCELS) ศ.เกียรติคุณ มนตรี จุฬาวัมทล ที่ปรึกษาทีเซลส์ แถลงข่าว “แนวคิดการตั้งเขตพัฒนาและบริการสุขภาพแนวใหม่ของประเทศไทย หรือ เวชนคร (Medicopolis) ว่า แม้ปัจจุบันไทยจะมีนโยบายเมดิคัล ฮับ (Medical Hub) แต่ยังเป็นการดำ

About one in six children and teenagers are also obese, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association report which showed that obesity remains a significant problem in US society despite efforts to combat it.“Obesity prevalence shows little change over the past 12 years, although the

Clare True had autism and periodic seizures, but nothing prepared her family for Christmas Eve in 2006, when the 26-year-old went to bed after watching a movie and stopped breathing.“I got home from a party, went to check on her just after midnight, and she was — she was gone,” said her mother, Jane