Swine Flu Study Finds Hardest Hit are Women.

Patients who became the most critically ill with swine flu and those who died were relatively healthy young women — not the elderly and chronically ill as many still believe, according to an article released by the Journal of the American Medical...

Mother’s Obesity Raises Risk of Birth Defects.

A new analysis, published Feb. 11 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, documents a wider than expected range of birth defects that are more likely to plague babies born to obese women.

Fragile X Testing Recommended for All Ages

JAMA commentary urges testing of children, men and women for subtle effects of fragile X gene mutation. UCDavis.edu – Writing in this week’s Journal of the American Medical Association, UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute researchers urge physicians...

Vitamins Don’t Alter Cancer Risk.

Daily doses of vitamins B-6, B-12 and folate (B-9) don’t raise or lower a woman’s risk of getting cancer, researchers report in the Nov. 5 Journal of the American Medical Association.

FDA Names Permanent Director for Center for Drug Evaluation And Research

Commissioner of Food and Drugs Dr. Andrew C. von Eschenbach today announced, after a national search, the appointment of Janet Woodcock, M.D., as director of the agency’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER).