In the February 13 issue of JAMA, severalstrategies were explored for patients with severe respiratorydisorders. While there was little improvement in death rates, severalpromising results were obtained, and the resulting dialogue indicates aneed for further research in the same vein.

The Department of Labor Tuesday published its proposed new regulations governing the Family and Medical Leave Act, CongressDaily reports. According to CongressDaily, Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chair Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and

A bipartisan group of senators on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and Finance committees has been holding discussions on the possibility of coupling an expansion of SCHIP with new risk-pooling arrangements for small businesses, The Politico reports.

The Bush administration over the next several months will issue new Medicaid rules that would shift billions of dollars in costs to the states, after studies from the Government Accountability Office supported its assertion that states have used questionable practices to generate more federal payments than they deserve, CQ Today reports.

The Edinburg, Va.-based Hands Off My Estrogens Coalition last week placed advertisements in five newspapers that accused FDA of being hostile toward custom-made hormone products aimed at treating symptoms associated with menopause, the

An increasingly aging U.S. population is expected to put additional strain on the costs of government-sponsored programs, such as Social Security and Medicare, even as the rising number of immigrants contributes to the total number of working-age people, according to a study released on Monday by the Pew Hispanic Center, the

The New York Times Magazine on Sunday examined different views about fetal pain among medical experts, lawmakers and advocates, as well as how such views have affected abortion policy. According to the Times Magazine, some research — including studies conducted by Sunny Anand, a pediatrician at

With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) would like to remind you that snoring is the number one reason why couples sleep apart-and your Valentine might be best served by some preventive measures to ensure a good night’s rest. The noisy sounds of snoring occur when there is an obstruction to the free flow of air through the passages at the back of the mouth and nose.

The Lung Association praised the B.C. government for being the second province in Canada to announce that it will introduce legislation to ban smoking in cars where children are present. This marks the first “win” since the Association launched its national campaign to end smoking in cars with kids.

Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have developed a blood test with enough sensitivity and specificity to detect early stage ovarian cancer with 99 percent accuracy.Results of this new study are published in the February 15 issue of the journal Clinical Cancer Research. The results build on work done by the same Yale group in 2005 showing 95 percent effectiveness of a blood test using four proteins.