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 |  | | | | |  | | | | December 02, 2008 04:07 PM ET
 | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - There is no evidence that brand-name drugs given to treat heart and other cardiovascular conditions work any better than their cheaper generic counterparts, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
| | | December 02, 2008 10:41 AM ET
 | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Spending a lot of time watching TV, playing video games and surfing the Web makes children more prone to a range of health problems including obesity and smoking, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
| | | December 02, 2008 04:03 PM ET
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Women who consume more than two alcoholic drinks a day have a higher risk of getting the most common type of heart rhythm disturbance, which can raise the chances of having a stroke, researchers said on Tuesday.
| | | December 02, 2008 04:12 PM ET
| CHICAGO (Reuters) - Special teams set up to spot patients at risk of having cardiac or respiratory arrests in U.S. hospitals do not save lives and may not be a good use of resources, researchers said on Tuesday.
| | | December 02, 2008 02:04 PM ET
| DAKAR (Reuters) - Several hundred African anti-AIDS campaigners paraded giant puppets of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy Tuesday to demand that they deliver promised funds for plans to fight the disease.
| | | December 02, 2008 04:55 PM ET
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New limits are needed to ensure that the long hours logged by young doctors in training at hospitals do not leave them so exhausted that they make medical errors, a U.S. expert panel said on Tuesday.
| | | December 02, 2008 12:56 PM ET
| CHICAGO (Reuters) - As many as 7 percent of patients from a large U.S. hospital system had enough radiation exposure from CT scans during their lifetime to slightly raise their risk of cancer, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
| | | December 02, 2008 03:46 PM ET
| KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - Anti-biotech forces turned out in Kansas on Tuesday to argue against a state plan that would limit how dairy products free from artificial hormones can be labeled.
| | | December 02, 2008 03:48 PM ET
| NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - More than one out of every six patients who have an implant of their own tissue to treat a knee cartilage defect will require repeat surgery, according to a new report on 309 patients treated with the procedure.
| | | December 02, 2008 03:47 PM ET
| NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with asthma are at increased risk of serious infection with pneumococcal bacteria, according to a new analysis of medical records.
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Brand-name drugs no better than generics: study
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