A new study has revealed that beer could be good for the bones, giving lovers of the beverage yet another reason to order an additional round.

The Food and Drug Administration is seeking the requirement that food manufacturers should post nutritional information on the front of packages, in line with a move towards the battle against obesity.

A study, to be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 62nd Annual Meeting in Toronto April 10 to April 17, 2010, suggested that a Mediterranean diet may help people avoid the small areas of brain damage that can trigger problems with thinking and memory.

Canadian researchers on Monday suggested that women with breast cancer who take both tamoxifen and the antidepressant Paxil are likely to have a large risk of relapsing and dying because Paxil reduces tamoxifen's effectiveness.

The longer the overlap between Paxil and tamoxifen, the more likely the patients were to die, they reported in the British Medical Journal.

The Long Beach Health Department has announced that it will offer a free H1N1 flu vaccine at a special clinic from 9 a. m. to noon Wednesday in the El Dorado Park Senior Center, 2800 Studebaker Road.

The documents released on Monday posted that U. S. drug reviewers criticized effectiveness data from Cell Therapeutics Inc for an experimental lymphoma drug and revealed that the medicine posed significant side effects.

A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel review of the drug, originally scheduled for Wednesday, was postponed due to weather.

After holding the groundwork for nearly a year, Michelle Obama initiates a campaign on Tuesday against childhood obesity that she hopes will alter the way millions of Americans eat, exercise, look and feel.

A study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) suggested that the residual nicotine from tobacco smoke reacts with ambient nitrous acid it forms carcinogenic tobacco-specific nitrosamines, or TSNAs.

Berkeley scientists in the US initiated lab tests and discovered significant levels of toxins on smoke-exposed material.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that the insurer should extend a 'detailed justification' for its plan to raise premiums on individual policies by as much as 39%.

Federal regulators have extended its approval to AstraZeneca permitting it to market its cholesterol pill Crestor as a precautionary measure against heart attack and stroke in patients with healthy cholesterol levels.

The approval was granted on the basis of data obtained for a nearly 18,000-patient study funded by AstraZeneca and called Jupiter.