Golden State Warriors coach Don Nelson has pneumonia and won't travel with the team for two NBA games in Texas. The 69-year-old missed ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has promised severe punishment for officials caught concealing deaths from H1N1 swine flu after a medical expert said suspect ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with chronic lung disease like emphysema or bronchitis can strengthen their arms and legs with resistance training, and this strength may help them perform everyday tasks more easily, a new review of 18 studies confirms. Rehabilitation ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc's next- generation Prevnar vaccine missed some key goals in a study of its effectiveness, U.S. reviewers said in documents released on Monday. The Prevnar 13 vaccine is designed to protect against 13 forms of a bacterium called ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - An analysis of 19 studies provides additional evidence of increased asthma risk in children and adults given acetaminophen. The study's lead author told Reuters Health, while this type of study isn't the best way to prove that ...
UN says it needs $39 billion to fight the leading killer of children: Pneumonia To fight pneumonia, the world's top killer of children, United Nations officials say they need $39 billion (euro26.35 billion) over the next six years. On the first World ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A more protective form of Pfizer's vaccine for pneumococcal disease would be highly effective at preventing deaths from pandemic influenza, independent researchers and the company reported over the weekend. In a severe outbreak like the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Pneumonia kills more young children than any other disease, but an investment of $39 billion, or just $12.9 per child, could save 5.3 million lives in developing countries by 2015, the U.N. said Monday. The disease, which attacks the ...
GENEVA (Reuters) - A vaccine aid group said on Friday it was seeking $4 billion to protect as many as 130 million of the world's poorest children against diarrhea and pneumonia. Children in developed countries are routinely immunized against the bacteria causing ...
Turkey's Health Ministry has reported the first swine flu death in the country. The ministry says the 29-year-old patient, treated for pneumonia and who tested positive for swine flu, died after developing sudden respiratory problems Saturday. The ministry did not immediately say ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with difficult-to-control asthma are often not taking their anti-asthma medication as prescribed by their doctor, new study findings indicate. Even when prescribed high doses of steroids, about 5 percent of adults with asthma remain difficult to ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who are neurotic -- they tend to worry a lot and to have emotional ups and downs -- seem to be at increased risk of developing asthma, a new study hints. Those who suffer through a ...
