Delirium often dogs patients after they’ve been released from intensive care. The health community has long seen the confusion and cognitive impairmant as temporary, and more or less inevitable, complications that aren’t particularly serious.
Yet a growing body of research suggests that an episode of delirium in the hospital can impair a person’s ability to [...]

In these days of drug-industry troubles, who but Genentech could beat estimates, post 22% year-over-year earnings growth and still disappoint Wall Street?
Here’s what a few of the Genentech watchers had to say:

“2007 Has Been Remarkable Only For The Deceleration In Growth,” reads one of the bullet-points from Cowen’s Eric Schmidt. He points out that over [...]

As the reign of Pfizer CEO Hank McKinnell was entering its twilight almost two years ago, he fired off a short, internal email asking whether it was time to buy Biogen Idec, the Health Blog has learned.
The answer to the query from McKinnell (pictured) turned out to be “no,” as history shows. But his [...]

The deadly H5N1 bird flu virus can pass through the placenta of pregnant women and into the fetus, Chinese scientists report.

While lower cholesterol is generally considered a good thing, new research suggests that very low cholesterol levels in pregnant women may harm the health of the fetus.