Merck People 60 and older who want to ward off the risk of getting shingles now stand a better chance of getting the only approved vaccine, Merck’s Zostavax. As Dow Jones Newswires reports, Merck has restored supplies of the vaccine after several... 

Seimens A Seimens molecular CT scanner The Health Blog caught up at TEDMED with Gregory Sorensen , chief executive of Siemens Healthcare in North America, to talk about the changing health-care field and what it means for diagnostics, an area in which... 

iStockphoto Are patients good consumers of healthcare? Nope, says Jon Cohen, a vascular surgeon and chief medical officer at Quest Diagnostics. The average American spends twice as much time before buying a TV as they do looking for a doctor, he told... 

PLoS E.O. Wilson E.O. Wilson, professor and honorary curator in entomology at Harvard, had some advice for students pursuing science during his talk today at TEDMED in Washington. First, don’t shy away from science because you’re afraid of math,... 

iStockphoto Pregnant women with weight and blood-sugar levels even slightly above average may pose a risk to their pregnancies and the health of their newborns, a study suggests. The 2008 Hyperglycemia and Adverse Pregnancy Outcome study showed a possible... 

iStockphoto Here’s what’s making health news this morning: FDA Warns on Antibiotic Use (WSJ): The agency set a three-year timetable for the phase-out of the drugs to spur animal growth, amid concerns people will eat meat containing antibiotic-resistant... 

It didn’t take long for Sheri McCoy, the runner-up in Johnson & Johnson’s search for a new CEO, to find a new landing spot. As the WSJ reports, she’s taking the helm at Avon Products. Her new role won’t be easy. Struggling... 

Attention Lipitor patients: there are good odds now that your pills were sold by generic drug maker Ranbaxy Laboratories, not the cholesterol fighting drug’s longtime maker, Pfizer. Ranbaxy is now selling more pills than Pfizer, according to Wolters... 

iStockphoto Researchers say they have identified gene mutations that contribute to autism in three separate studies. The mutations identified were rare and aren’t necessarily present in the parents, only the offspring, which has made finding them... 

By Kate Linebaugh GE is ramping up its investment in personalized medicine, reflecting the burgeoning interest in using genetic information to help tailor treatments to individual patients. The conglomerate is buying — for an undisclosed sum —...