Scientists at the Vienna Medical University in Austria say varying tamoxifen therapy with a drug called anastrozole produces better results in older women past menopause, in the early stages of their breast cancer.

"Switching from tamoxifen to anastrozole after two years is more beneficial for the patients than staying on tamoxifen," Professor Raimund Jakesz, the lead researcher, says in an interview

Oregon's teacher standards board votes to publicly reprimand a science teacher and football coach accused of licking the bleeding wounds of several students.

The board also votes to place Scott Reed on two years probation

Teenagers who smoke and are around second-hand smoke are putting themselves at more risk for of metabolic syndrome, a condition marked by obesity, high blood pressure, unhealthy cholesterol levels and pre-diabetes according to a study printed in the medical journal "Circulation" Monday.

"This is the first study to link this syndrome, which most people associate with obesity, to secondhand smoke," Dr. Michael Weitzman of the University of Rochester in New York, who led the study told Reuters

New research shows the American robin may be a more potent source for the West Nile virus.

Theodore Andreadis, chief medical entomologist at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station , says DNA analysis of blood taken from 300 mosquitoes in Connecticut over the past three years finds 40-percent fed on the blood of robins, while only one percent fed on crows

Patients that fail to respond to traditional medications for the treatment of ulcerative colitis, may be able to find success in alternative methods of treatment.

According to new research, consuming a mixture of eight good, or "probiotic," bacteria reduces symptoms in patients with the illness