Teen vaccination rates are on the rise, according to the 2009 National Immunization Survey results of Teen (NIS-Teen) — a phone survey of households with children between the ages of 13 and 17 conducted by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

CNN reports on a study suggesting that men with high blood pressure who imbibe more than six drinks in one sitting may double their risk of dying from a stroke or heart attack, while those that consume 12 drinks at a time increase their risk by five-fold.

Booster Shots, the Los Angeles Times’ health blog, yesterday pointed out that while the current prostate cancer screening technology — the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test — has lead to an increase in diagnoses and surgical interventions, it has not decreased the cancer mortality rate.

Despite claims that children are experiencing puberty earlier, there s very little good data to back that up, the chief of pediatric cardiology at University of Massachusetts Medical School writes in a column for Slate. While a well-publicized study in Pediatrics last month concluded girls were undergoing puberty as young as 7, Dr.

A Philadelphia jury has ruled that two women’s breast cancer wasn’t caused by Pfizer’s menopause drug Prempro, a combination of estrogen and progesterone. The two women had sought at least $100,000 in damages; as many as 9,000 other lawsuits are pending.

An Iowa egg farm has recalled 380 million eggs after hundreds of people in California, Minnesota and Colorado were sickened with a dangerous strain of salmonella.

Here’s a possible pick-up line for all you boys at the bar: Did you know moderate wine consumption is associated with better cognitive function? Female wine drinkers, and male wine and beer drinkers, score better on thinking tests than teetotalers.

Shire PLC is withdrawing its low-blood pressure drug ProAmatine from the market following demands from the FDA for additional clinical tests.

The CDC this year is urging that more people get a flu shot, and get it earlier than ever before. For the first time the agency recommends flu vaccinations for everyone over the age of six months, even healthy adults between the ages of 18 and 50, who were not included in the agency’s previous guidelines.

From the company that brought you Dolly the cloned sheep comes another new and exciting development: the creation of red blood cells from spare IVF embryonic stem cells (ESC). British scientists from the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh are using stem cell lines to create an alternative source of O-negative (universal donor) and B-positive blood types.