A recent study conducted at the Princeton University has revealed that cases of the drug resistant bacterial infection MRSA have rapidly increased by as much as 90% over the past decade, and are still spreading at an alarming rate outside hospitals.

Recent figures shared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have confirmed that lung cancer has lately managed to dislodge breast cancer to take its place as the main form of cancer which leads to deaths in women.

According to the data released by the Nurses' Health Study, a major American lifestyle and health investigation, too much consumption of drinks which contain artificial sweeteners may have a negative effect on the kidneys. The effects of artificially sweetened soda drinks were observed on over 3,000 women.

A recent survey by the U. S. government revealed that more than 60 percent of youngsters had either direct or indirect exposure to violence in the last one year. The survey involved children aged 17 and younger.

Going by the findings of a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, "prudent" diet patterns can notably lower the risk of breast cancer in different groups of women.

According to a new report published in the medical journal The Lancet, going by the current trajectories pertaining to the pace of increase in life expectancy, babies born in the industrialized countries - including the US, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, and Japan among others - since 2000 would expectedly living up to the age of 100 years.

Last year, the number of people tested for HIV more than doubled in dozens of countries, which has led to an improved number of patients being detected and treated.
 

Researchers studying the effects of stress in animal models reported that a socially isolated and stressful environment can speed up the effects of stress.

Dr Suzanne D. Conzen, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Chicago, informed that social isolation can change the expression of genes important in the growth of mammary gland tumors.

Johnson & Johnson’s McNeil unit is recalling 57 lots of children’s and infant’s liquid Tylenol products due to a possible bacterial contamination.

The products being recalled were produced in the months of April-June and have two dozen different varieties.

A new treatment for advanced melanoma facilitates rapid shrinking of tumors according to a new study.

The phase I of the extension trial examines patients with a mutation of the BRAF gene that causes cancer, associated with half of the melanoma cases and 5 percent of colorectal cancers.