Swiss drug manufacturer Roche AG is currently discussing ways to offer ingredients to let Vietnam manufacture the antiviral medicine Tamiflu.

Forty-two people have already died from bird flu in Vietnam and experts fear the H5N1 virus could mutate into a form that can be transmitted from human to human

Elaine Barber is being denied breast cancer medicine due to its cost and proven safety of the drug.

Barber, however, is incredulous that the drug's history is in question

At least one in five Americans has, or is at serious risk for developing, diabetes. Health organizations now warn millions are at an increased risk for cardiovascular disease.

In its biannual report on diabetes, the CDC revealed last week that 20.8 million Americans are now living with diabetes, a 14 percent increase from the18.2 million the CDC reported in 2003. Another 41 million have pre-diabetes, the condition that indicates an increased risk for developing both type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. It is estimated that heart disease and stroke kill two out of three people with diabetes

According to statistics from the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) racial and ethnic minorities accounted for 20-percent of all cosmetic procedures performed last year, an increase from 14-percent in 2000.

Hispanics lead minority racial and ethnic groups in the number of procedures at 8.5-percent followed by African- Americans, 6.2 percent; Asians, 4.6 percent; and other non-Caucasians, 1.1 percent

For the first time, ultrasound is being used in animal models - to treat cancer by disrupting the flow of blood to tumors.

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine completed a study in mice in which they used ultrasound, and after three minutes at an intensity similar to what is used I physiotherapy ultrasound - about 2.5 watts - researchers found that the tumors had little or no blood supply. The findings were published in the journal Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology