It has long been known that environmental factors play a part in the development of rheumatoid arthritis; smoking and drinking alcohol, along with heredity, are particularly instrumental in increasing the risk of the disease.

For the first time, health officials are urging all kids going back to school to get a flu shot. It’s one of the changes being made after last year’s bad influenza season. The Food and Drug Administration has also reformulated the vaccine to better combat the virus. The vaccine was largely ineffective last year, blocking [...]

Lewy body dementia is a progressive brain disease and the second leading cause of degenerative dementia in the elderly. Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), which is the clinical name, accounts for up to 20 percent of all dementia cases, or 800,000 patients in the United States.

A process that governs embryo implantation in the womb in humans has been identified for the first time. The Oxford University research, published in the journal PNAS , could shed light on what goes wrong when embryos fail to implant in the lining of the womb, a leading cause of infertility.

GI Dynamics, a medical device company pioneering the development of new approaches to treat obesity and metabolic disorders, today announced new data regarding the EndoBarrier™, its novel, noninvasive device currently in clinical trials to treat obesity and type 2 diabetes. New data from a multi-center, randomized clinical trial indicate that the EndoBarrier is a safe, [...]