A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel of outside medical experts Wednesday said the agency should urge pharmaceutical companies to conduct stricter safety tests before marketing new diabetes drugs.

FDA advisers voted 14-2 that the FDA should require drug makers to show that experimental diabetes drugs don't increase cardiovascular risks. Many diabetes drugs lower blood sugar but they still pose risks for the heart

Around 5,000 families who believe that a mercury-based preservative, thimerosal, found in many vaccines causes the development of autism have filed claims with the U.S. Court of Claims. The families allege vaccines caused autism and other neurological problems in their children.

Autism is a developmental disability which usually appears in children during their first 36 months. Once an uncommon disorder in the United States, the incidence of autism is now occurring at epidemic rates

Injuries resulting from drowning, suffocation and road accidents are among the leading killers of Asian children. That news comes from groundbreaking research by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), which is appealing for scaled-up injury prevention initiatives.

The survey, conducted jointly with the Alliance for Safe Children (TASC) over the past seven years, highlights the fact that the risk of death from injuries rises after infancy. That is because children become more independent and the danger from infectious and non-communicable diseases drops

A study recently concluded that people who reach the age of 100 manage to do so based on the delayed onset of disability, and not exclusively the avoidance of any diseases, as what was primarily thought.

Experts from the Boston Medical Center drew their findings from an analysis of health history questionnaires answered by 739 men and women, all between the ages if 97 and 119. Of the subjects, one-third managed to survive at least one age-related disease before reaching the age of 85

Shift workers may suffer higher risks of disability as compared to permanent day workers, according to a new study conducted by a team of researchers at the National Research Centre for the Working Environment in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The same study involving some 8,000 regular and irregular working males and females however confirmed that women are more prone to health risks as compared to men