Children whose at least one parent suffers from will more probably be willing to use very expensive health-care services, including visits to the emergency room and to specialists.

Organic kiwi fruit comprises much higher levels of compounds thought to offer importat benefits for human health, suggests the research conducted by the scientists at a University of California.

According to the statistics of American government, in the past five years, the number of deaths caused by unintended drug overdoses doubled in the United States. They increased from 11 155 in 1999 to 19 838 in 2004, according to the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.

This week American specialists issued several guidelines in order to help primary care physicians diagnose and treat venous thromboembolisms (VTEs), which include deep-vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism.

According to  neurologists, they have created a fast test to evaluate the risk that a person suffering a transient ischaemic attack (TIA), or "mini stroke," will have a major stroke in the subsequent forty eight hours.

According to the latest study, the investigational antihypertensive medication called clevidipine may be able to control blood pressure for heart surgery patients more effectively than ordinary treatments.

Nausea is a universal term that describes a sick stomach. Sometimes you feel like vomiting and sometimes not. From time to time almost everybody suffers from nausea. This is why it is one of the most frequent problems occurring in medicine. Nausea is not an illness, but a symptom of many different diseases. It can result from problems in any of the three parts of the body, such as:

The researchers have cracked the genome of the parasite that leads to trichomoniasis, a sexually transmitted disease striking 170 million people all over the world every year.

According to the latest research by British scientists, low-dose, slow-release morphine can offer chronic coughers considerable relief.

According to American scientists, a synthetic composite that is a distant chemical relative of a component of curcumin - a spice used for producing curry - demonstrates promise against an inherited neurodegenerative condition known as Kennedy’s disease.

The illness, that strikes only men, resembles a slowly progressive form of Lou Gehrig’s illness. The treatment for Kennedy’s disease does not exist, which results from a mutant gene.