Eli Lilly and Merck are going to start reporting payments made to physicians. How would you feel if you found out that your physician, who just prescribed you (or your child)that expensive new drug…

Some of the world’s rarest and most precious metals, including platinum and iridium, could owe their presence in the Earth’s crust to iron and stony-iron meteorites, fragments of a large number of…

An artificial meteorite designed by the European Space Agency has shown that traces of life in a martian meteorite could survive the violent heat and shock of entry into the Earth’s atmosphere. The…

Life has been discovered in the barren depths of Rome's ancient tombs but it's not zombies or Knights Templars protecting secret treasure; it's two new species of bacteria found growing on the walls…

American children are approximately three times more likely to be prescribed psychotropic medication than children in Europe, according to a new study published Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and…

BRUSSELS, Belgium, September 25 /PRNewswire/ -- - Theme for 2008 World Diabetes Day - November 14 - is "Diabetes in Children and Adolescents" BRUSSELS, Belgium, September 25 /PRNewswire/ -- The…

LONDON, September 25 /PRNewswire/ -- The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) has responded to the 2008 Which? report, A test of your own medicine. David Pruce, Director of Policy…

Elias Zerhouni, director of the National Institutes of Health since 2002, is resigning his position at the end of October. Zerhouni has led the NIH through an interesting period, and my take is that…

TORONTO, Canada, September 24 /PRNewswire/ -- - RedMAX(TM) 4C Mobile WiMAX Subscriber Devices Join Redline's Roster of Proven WiMAX Forum Certified Product; Enables Mobile Service Providers to Offer…

NEW YORK, September 24 /PRNewswire/ -- As the United Nations General Assembly convenes this week, the Alzheimer's Foundation of America (AFA) is encouraging foreign leaders to collaborate on a…