A new biologic drug, Ceprotin (Baxter Healthcare Corp, Deerfield, IL) was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday for the treatment of a rare blood clotting disorder.

Ceprotin was shown to be "effective" for 94 percent of the participants in a trial study. Only six percent of the patients studied had complications due to dosage adjustment needs, yet these patients still experienced effective results

Diabetes has become the greatest public health crisis of the next quarter century. A new report from the American Diabetes Association (ADA) state one in five Americans are either at high risk for developing type 2 diabetes or are unaware that they already have diabetes.

In order to address this burgeoning health crisis, the ADA is issuing an urgent call-to-action for Americans to find out their risk for type 2 diabetes during the 19th annual American Diabetes Alert Day. The numbers are staggering more than six million Americans have diabetes, but don't even know it. While another 54 million Americans have pre-diabetes, placing them at increased risk for developing type 2 diabetes

Remember when your mother forced you to eat carrots saying it will improve your eyesight? Well, she is not right anymore as new research suggests that beta carotene pills are useful against a common type of vision loss among older people.

Carrots, rich in beta carotene, have been seen to improve eyesight but experts believe that age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in people 65 and older, can however not be cured by taking beta-carotene pills

The worldwide leaders on contact lens - Bausch and Lomb recalled more than 1 million bottles of contact lens solution after excess levels of iron were discovered in it. It is the second recall from the company in the past 10 months.

Last year, the company recalled its ReNu with MoistureLoc solution after reports surfaced that the solution was linked to a potentially blinding fungus. The company ceased production of its ReNu with MoistureLoc solution at the same plant in Greenville, South Carolina after it received warnings from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in October 2006

An outbreak of herpes has forced all Minnesota high schools to shut down their wrestling programs until Feb. 6.

The Minnesota State High School League (MSHL) has temporarily banned all competition due to 24 cases of herpes gladiatorum reported by 10 teams in the state