The continuing decline in the rate of cancer deaths once again affirms the progress we have made against cancer, … But the report also highlights the need for an acceleration of research as the population...

In our experience these phenomena, these shocks, will go on for weeks,

the quality, speed, and effectiveness of the public health response to SARS brilliantly outshone past responses to international outbreaks of infectious disease.

If a distinct H5N1 virus should suddenly emerge, an additional new vaccine against that strain may be needed,

The area is letting off the energy gradually, and this makes strong shocks less likely… We should be out of danger.

People simultaneously infected with human and avian influenza strains could become a mixing bowl for the disease,

There are some things that are not the way they should be, and even the indicators that are ‘best-ever’ status have room for improvement,

When present for at least six years, depression was associated with a generally increased risk of cancer,

The excellent research carried out by Hwang and his team must continue, but in a way that considers the ethics in an appropriate way,

most effective treatments for methamphetamine addiction are cognitive behavioral interventions – designed to help modify the patient’s thinking, expectancies and behaviors, and to increase skills in coping with various life stressors.

Potentially a treatment from one of the three is a few years away.

A thermal imaging camera was available but not utilized during the early stages of this incident as per the SOPs,

I am afraid the education of the public is very insufficient and they are not really aware of the danger as much as the professionals, like doctors or researchers,

ethnic minorities were more likely than Whites to receive a lower quality of healthcare even among the insured and higher income minority populations.

You’re giving people a choice and there clearly are a group of people that find needles rather distressing and if indeed they had choice of another way to deliver a vaccine, it could indeed allow...

We don’t know the exact cause of this. But it is probably because lungs of women are generally smaller (than men’s),

Certainly no one has found the prevalence of Ritalin use to be this high up until now,

It is a bit of muted good news in that we are going in the right direction, but the sobering news is we have a long way to go.

The well-being of America’s children is probably better than it ever has been,

it is statistically plausible that the difference is due to sampling error.

It can be said that the military balance between China and Taiwan is moving in a direction advantageous to China as it is rapidly modernizing its nuclear and missile capabilities as well as its navy...

you should not start drinking solely to benefit your heart.

Because there is no way to tell [in the short term] whether symptoms are from a TIA or an acute stroke, patients should assume that all stroke-like symptoms signal an emergency and should not wait...

It’s very controversial, but the authorities eventually ruled that they are not Cuauhtemoc’s remains,

Food has a greater impact on health than previously known,

Because there is no way to tell (in the short term) whether symptoms are from a TIA or an acute stroke, patients should assume that all stroke-like symptoms signal an emergency and should not wait...

The Story of Belize City

due to an exaggerated sense of danger.

a brain-based type of learning disability that specifically impairs a person’s ability to read. These individuals typically read at levels significantly lower than expected despite having normal intelligence.

Machines this small tend to stick to everything they touch, the way sand sticks to your feet after a day at the beach, … So we built these microrobots without any wheels or hinged joints,...

often or very often burned out or stressed by their work.