The National Institutes of Health have awarded, as part of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, a two-year, $2 million grant to a University of Georgia genetics researcher and her colleagues for studies on the thymus, the organ in humans that produces disease-fighting T-cells.

Common and clumsy-looking, the blow fly is a true artist of flight. Suddenly changing direction, standing still in the air, spinning lightning-fast around its own axis, and making precise, pinpoint landings – all these maneuvers are simply a matter of course. Extremely quick eyesight helps to keep it from losing orientation as it races to [...]

In a disappointing move, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) did an about face in issuing a final regulation classifying dental amalgam without calling for stringent precautions for pregnant women and children. Last June, a court settlement filed by the Consumers for Dental Choice required the FDA to withdraw claims of mercury amalgam’s safety from [...]

Many cases of age-related neurodegenerative disease fall into the gray zone between big, defined diseases – Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s, for example. Their diagnostic accuracy is low, researchers agree. That’s a problem, because mixed disease is not only common, but also quite different in its course from pathologically ‘pure’ disease. (Mixed disease is often worse.) But [...]

Senator Barack Obama, Democratic candidate for President, answered five questions about his health care plan to SpineUniverse.com. Now every visitor to SpineUniverse.com — people who have an intense interest in the state of health care because of back pain or neck pain — can examine how Sen. Obama’s plan would affect them. (SpineUniverse also contacted [...]