WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush plans to cast the first veto of his presidency, possibly as early as Wednesday, to stop legislation that would expand federally funded embryonic stem cell research.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Marriott International Inc. on Wednesday said it will make all of its hotels in the United States and Canada entirely non-smoking, beginning in September.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Knowledge of available treatment options and the significance of drug resistance has declined in patients infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, according to results of a survey presented Tuesday.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Diet changes or nutritional supplements, such as vitamins, antioxidants, retinol or garlic, do not alter the course of disease in patients with cancer or precancerous conditions, according to the findings of one of two studies published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Any new rooms added to the nation's 6,000 hospitals will likely need to be private ones to comply with new guidelines for most U.S. states, industry experts said on Tuesday.
LONDON (Reuters) - Men suffering from impotence should be screened for cardiovascular disease because it could be an early sign of the illness, Italian researchers said on Wednesday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Infusing human antibodies into people with Alzheimer's disease appears to slow disease progression and may even improve the patients' condition a little, researchers reported on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Men and boys with autism have fewer neurons in the amygdala, a part of the brain involved in emotion and memory, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women destined to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease often show a reduction in body weight many years before symptom onset, new research shows. However, men who develop this neurologic disorder do not show any weight changes.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new matchstick-sized contraceptive that doctors insert in a woman's upper arm for as long as three years won U.S. clearance on Tuesday, six years after an earlier birth-control implant came off the market.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - "These findings suggest that the composition of a diet, especially low dietary fiber and fruit intake, play a role in the (development) of obesity," concludes the study team in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hotel chain Marriott International Inc. will announce on Wednesday that it is banning smoking in all rooms of its 2,300-plus hotels in the United States and Canada, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Wednesday.
LONDON (Reuters) - World leaders missed a major opportunity to boost basic health in poor countries this week when G8 leaders failed to adopt a lead vaccine for a novel advance purchase scheme, drug companies said on Tuesday.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Many women in the United States who are injection drug users and are also infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, do not routinely use condoms with their uninfected regular partners or with casual sex partners, according to researchers in the U.S. and South Africa
CHICAGO (Reuters) - People who experience vision of heart disease compared to people who do not get the debilitating headaches, a study said on Tuesday.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The heavier a woman is at the age of 18, the greater is her risk of dying prematurely, according to a large study published Monday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Infusing human antibodies into people with Alzheimer's disease appears to help stop the disease from getting worse and may even help the patients improve a little, researchers reported on Tuesday.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Novartis AG on Tuesday said it will invest $600 million to build the first plant in the United States to develop flu vaccines using advanced, cell-culture techniques.
LONDON (Reuters) - Rising cases of asthma in European children could be partly due to indoor swimming pools, Belgian scientists said on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Conservative anti-abortion senators were split on Tuesday ahead of a vote on a stem cell research bill that appears destined to draw the first veto of George W. Bush's presidency.
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