The makers of antidepressants such as Prozac and Paxil never published the results of about a third of the drug trials that they conducted to win government approval, misleading doctors and consumers about the drugs' true effectiveness, a new analysis has found. ...more

January 17, 2008

Just because you're in the hospital doesn't mean you'll quickly get treated if your heart stops beating. About one-third of patients don't get a potentially lifesaving shock within the recommended two minutes, a new study found. ...more

January 3, 2008

A French woman who two years ago became the first person to receive a face transplant has recovered with remarkably good aesthetic results and gradually has regained normal skin sensation and control of her facial muscles, doctors reported Wednesday in the first detailed account of her progress. ...more

December 13, 2007

Being overweight as a child significantly increases the risk of heart disease in adulthood as early as age 25, according to a large new study that provides the most powerful evidence yet that the obesity epidemic is spawning a generation prone to serious adult health problems. ...more

December 6, 2007

Lung transplants, a treatment of last resort for cystic fibrosis, are rarely beneficial to children with that condition and are often harmful, according to a study released Thursday. ...more

November 23, 2007

One could not define The New England Journal of Medicine as a bastion for tax-and-spend liberals. Harvard folks who provide the publication are a conservative lot who publish, after great scrutiny, health-related studies and editorials. ...more

October 26, 2007

A relatively new screening test was about twice as accurate as the traditional Pap smear at spotting cervical cancer, according to the first rigorous study of the test in North America. ...more

October 18, 2007

From a snippet of a patient's skin, researchers have grown blood vessels in a laboratory and implanted them to restore blood flow around the patient's damaged arteries and veins. ...more

October 13, 2007

The widely used chemotherapy drug Taxol does not work for the most common form of breast cancer and helps far fewer patients than has been thought, surprising new research suggests. ...more

October 11, 2007