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If you've been hungrily awaiting the arrival of Research In Motion's latest BlackBerry, the touchscreen-enable Storm is finally here. Does it live up to the hype?

The National Community Pharmacists Association continues to offer educational opportunities for pharmacists, as well as seek their input on issues impacting the practice of pharmacy.

The JUPITER study ended more than 2 years early after an "unequivocal benefit of rosuvastatin" was determined among individuals with normal cholesterol levels but elevated levels of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein.

Too many Americans still smoke, and stress from current economic woes is making quitting even harder. Today’s Great American Smokeout marks a good time for pharmacists to step up those antismoking efforts.

CVS and Rite Aid are taking steps to ensure non–English speaking New Yorkers have their drug instructions translated into their primary language.

Survey reveals that more than half of US chronically ill adults skip care. Respondents cite cost and medical errors.

I’ve been researching teen dating violence recently, so news regarding a study regarding the development of violence in children perked my interest.

TomoTherapy Inc, Madison, Wisconsin, has introduced the TomoDirect discrete-angle delivery mode for its TomoTherapy Hi·Art treatment system. This new technology allows Hi·Art system users to plan and deliver advanced radiation treatments quickly, with a series of linear beam paths rather than the existing helical path.

Most parents will tell you that their child/children have had at least one sleep-related problem from the time they are born to about six years old. It’s a common occurrence, with the most frequent issues being night terrors, bed wetting, and grinding teeth.

This editorial was stimulated one morning when I saw a patient with congestive heart failure and rapid atrial fibrillation (AF).

Clearly, the mission of Managed Care involves all parts of the value equation (See Part III of this Series): quality (both technical and as perceived), cost-if not cost-effectiveness and access.

Numerous recent studies have shown that a child’s likelihood of developing obesity may be determined while he or she is still a fetus.

The amount of information available to help identify women at risk for late recurrences of breast cancer is limited. A new study suggests that 10 and 15 years after completing adjuvant therapy, women retain a low risk for breast cancer recurrence.

Nebraska’s safe haven law was "intended to allow parents to hand over an infant anonymously to a hospital without being prosecuted." However, of the 34 children who have been dropped off since the law has been enacted, none have been an infant.

Clinvest was approached by one of the largest pharmaceutical companies to "create and manage a [Mental Efficiency and Workload Test] for 500 subjects in a migraine trial occurring in 50 sites across the United States." This will be the first time cognitive processing time will be tested in a major migraine study.

Researchers at the Methodist Hospital in Houston, TX; Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, TX; and The University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City, UT, are enrolling patients in a new clinical trial designed to help find the answer to that question.

African-American patients hospitalized for myocardial infarction (MI) with a history of depression who are considered depressed at the time of the MI are at an increased risk for death afterward, new research has found.

Several common therapies used in the treatment of breast and prostate cancers have been found to have a higher incidence of bone loss and a higher rate of bones breakage, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Montreal who looked at data from breast and prostate cancer patients

A new study shows that elderly patients with cancer are at greater risk for suicide than those with other illnesses. This increased risk persisted after accounting for comorbid psychiatric illness and risk of dying within a year.

Google recently turned its analytic eye on how to track the outbreak of infectious diseases using its own search technology.

Researchers have found that peanut allergies were 10 times higher in Jewish children in the UK than in Israel.

As nurses, it’s often in our mindset to agree to do most things we’re asked to do.

Donald E. Nease, Jr., MD, and others from the department of family medicine at the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor wanted to find out whether primary care practices (PCPs) could use computers to increase the rate of colorectal cancer screening.

Pathwork Diagnostics Inc announced that company representatives would present three studies involving their Pathwork Tissue of Origin Test.

Disparities in the care and treatment for hypertension contributes to the deaths of almost 8,000 African American men and women in the United States each year.

Is bigger better? When it comes to cancer centers, results of a study published in the August 2008 issue of Annals of Surgery suggest the answer is yes.

People who have seizures not only experience pre- and post-seizure symptoms, they become afraid and embarrassed should they have a seizure in public.

Being a relative newcomer to the field, I face new medical, ethical, technical situations on a daily basis, a reminder that learning does not end with medical school and residency.

There have already been some snags and alarms raised in questioning just how successful this new batch of tech toys for diabetes will be in the end.

The American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association announced the joint release of a comprehensive set of new practice guidelines on the management of adults with congenital heart disease.