Parents in Norwalk (CT) have raised concerns that an autism consultant hired by the school district was not certified as a behavior analyst as she cla...
On August 22, 2008, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a final ruling that allows food producers to zap fresh spinach and iceberg lett...
Today Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell signed House Bill 5696, which requires insurance companies to cover physical, speech and occupational therapie...
Researchers from Universite Montpellier in France recently discovered that grapes and apples may prevent plaque from coating arterial walls when con...
Via CBC.ca, another reminder that H5N1 will not be hospitals' only problem: B.C. hospital works to contain Norwalk virus.An outbreak of the Norwalk vi...
President Bush today named Kerry Weems acting chief of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Bush nominated Weems for the permanent job in M...
A fascinating report in today's BMJ on deveopment of oral vaccines from plants is well worth reading. Professor Arntzen and his team at Arizona State...
The federal government said today that it would cut by nearly 10% the amount it pays to doctors and other health care providers next year. Then again,...
Medicare could scrap a payment system that some critics say encourages dialysis centers to give kidney patients more anemia drugs than they need. On ...
A church in Carlsbad, CA recently faced a complex religious issue when a former inmate revealed to the congregation that he had been in prison for mol...