The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday allowed XDx Inc. to sell a test for heart-transplant patients. The drug will save the transplant patients from repeated biopsies to check if their bodies are rejecting the new organ.

Currently, transplant patients have to get tissue samples from the heart checked to look for signs if their body is rejecting the organ. Such procedures can be hard to perform and risky for the patient. The new non-invasive test will save them from this ordeal

Scientists have changed a pancreas cell into an insulin-producing cell, a breakthrough that could ultimately shift treatment options for a variety of diseases away from stem cells.

The Harvard University scientists who developed the technique believe that someday doctors might be able to treat diseases like diabetes, Parkinson's disease and heart disease using the patient's own cells without turning to stem cells taken from embryos

A new bird flu vaccine developed by Novavax from insect cell cultures has shown favorable results by spurring an immune response in the second stage of the human clinical trials.

The Rockville, MD-based developer has been pursuing a partnership with General Electric to advance a new flu vaccine that could be swiftly produced in large quantities. The company uses new technology that can cut to 10 to 12 weeks the time it takes to manufacture vaccines. This is half the time required to make egg-based vaccines

People with non-melanoma skin cancer are at a higher risk of developing other types of cancers in the body over one's lifetime, according to a study published Tuesday.

The researchers, led by University of South Carolina physician Anthony Alberg, followed 19,174 people listed in a Washington County, Maryland, cancer registry. They compared the histories over 16 years of 769 people diagnosed with non-melanoma skin cancers, with more than 18,000 people who did not have cancer in the period

Health authorities in Canada put the total number of deaths from a listeriosis outbreak to 26 on Monday. Thirty-five other cases of the bacterial infection are suspected to be related to the outbreak.

The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) said Monday three more people died from listeriosis in Ontario, bringing the total deaths nationwide to 26. The agency reported three similar deaths in the province last week