Body of Wealth

The United States of America has kept a goal of completely eradicating the mumps virus from USA by 2010 but sudden rise in the number of mumps cases since 2006 has raised doubts whether the target could ever be met. There have been 6,584 cases of mumps.

Hospitals, drugs and biomedical technology are meant to cure patients in physical and mental distress. However, commercialization of new therapies meant to cure the diseased will cause impoverishment of patients and their families. This has become...

There is once again a clash between the US Congress and President Bush with the president vetoing the legislation that would have provided government health insurance for children. President Bush vetoed a similar bill earlier. The reason why the bill..

One in five Americans will develop skin cancer. A person's risk of the disease doubles if he or she has had five or more sunburns. It came in the report of the Mayo Clinic Health Letter. In the same study, the researchers found that just 60% of the...