As products made with nanometer-scale materials and devices spread to more industries and markets, there is a growing opportunity and responsibility to leverage nanotechnology to reduce pollution, conserve resources and, ultimately, build a “clean” economy, advises a new report from the Project... 

Advisers to California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) say his health care expansion proposal will not be introduced as legislation because they do not want it to be dissected in legislative hearings, the AP/Los Angeles Daily News reports. Instead, the administration “appears to be waiting to”... 

Frequent self-weighing is not associated with depression in women, according to researchers at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. A study being published in a recent issue of Preventive Medicine found no strong evidence linking frequent scale stepping and depression in women. In addition,... 

The National Institutes of Health has awarded $7 million to a team of researchers from the University of Illinois and the University of Wisconsin to discover, engineer and produce a promising - yet little explored - class of antibiotic agents. The research will look for alternatives to standard antibiotics,... 

Friedreich’s ataxia is one of those diseases few have heard of unless you know someone with the condition. For that individual — usually a child or teenager — it is devastating. Symptoms are mild at first: muscle weakness in the arms and legs, vision impairment and slurred speech, but... 

While pregnancy may be considered an effective motivator for smoking cessation, results of a new study by researchers at the Mailman School of Public Health indicate that pregnant U.S. women commonly smoke, placing themselves and their unborn children at risk for health and developmental complications.... 

Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire (D) is expected to sign a bill that would expand health insurance coverage and reduce health care costs in the state, the AP/Takoma News Tribune reports. The state House on Friday voted 63-35 to approve the bill, and the Senate on Saturday voted 31-17 in favor of the measure... 

Neither induced abortion nor spontaneous abortion (miscarriage) appears to be associated with breast cancer risk in premenopausal women, according to a report in Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Women younger than age 35 who carry a pregnancy to term appear to have a... 

Correcting social, economic and healthcare inequalities may have the most significant impact in reducing survival differences in colorectal cancer (CRC) between African Americans and Caucasians, according to a new study. Published in the June 1, 2007 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American... 

“The question is not whether we should study the safety of drugs for children, but how we make that research happen,” and the Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act, which will expire this year, “has generated more clinical information for the pediatric population than any other legislative...