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 |  | | | | |  | | | | October 27, 2008 03:39 PM ET
 | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tourists traveling by plane and the growth of cities are combining to help new and old infections spread around the world, experts said on Monday.
| | | October 27, 2008 04:12 PM ET
 | CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. doctors are using a wider array of newer, more costly drugs to treat diabetes with little long-term proof that they work better than older, cheaper medications, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
| | | October 27, 2008 02:24 PM ET
| LONDON (Reuters) - British researchers said on Monday they might have discovered how schizophrenia affects part of the brain by carrying out tests with "Special K," a popular club drug that mimics the symptoms of the mental illness.
| | | October 27, 2008 10:14 AM ET
 | LONDON (Reuters) - A purple tomato genetically engineered to contain nutrients more commonly seen in dark berries helped prevent cancer in mice, British researchers said on Sunday.
| | | October 26, 2008 06:51 PM ET
 | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two experimental antibiotics appear to work safely against an increasingly common and dangerous form of infection called methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or MRSA, researchers said on Sunday.
| | | October 27, 2008 12:28 PM ET
| NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) -- a man-made chemical found in a number of plastic products, including drinking bottles and the lining of food cans -- may reduce the effectiveness of chemotherapy treatments, scientists report in the latest issue of Environmental Health Perspectives.
| | | October 27, 2008 02:25 PM ET
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A mysterious hemorrhagic disease that has killed three people in South Africa and forced others into isolation appears to be a never-before-seen strain of a virus known as an arenavirus, an expert said on Monday.
| | | October 27, 2008 02:25 PM ET
| NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - IMVAMUNE, a third-generation smallpox vaccine, can be safely given to people infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, with comparable effectiveness, research indicates.
| | | October 27, 2008 12:28 PM ET
| NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study shows that women with a disability are far more likely to experience a physical assault by a spouse or other intimate partner than those without a disability.
| | | October 27, 2008 02:22 PM ET
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rheumatoid arthritis appears to be on the rise among U.S. women after four decades of retreat while remaining stable among men, researchers said on Saturday.
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Old and new viruses spread by air travel, crowding
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