Night shifts? Think again. For US Researchers say there are higher rates of breast and prostate cancer among women and men whose work day starts after dark.

Bowel cancer screening halves emergency admissions for the disease and significantly cuts death rates, reveal the fifth year results from one of the first UK pilot sites.

A prototype vaccine against Japanese encephalitis, a viral disease endemic in Southeast Asia and parts of South Asia, is safe and triggers a good immune

A new drug offers promise of helping to cure patients suffering from Hepatitis C and other liver diseases who otherwise would not have been able to get treatment, a study released Wednesday found.

A pharmaceutical company has developed drugs that hold the potential of treating diseases of aging, including Type 2 Diabetes, by targeting SIRT1, a gene that controls the aging process.

Swiss firm Mymetics said on Wednesday it will start in 2008 Phase 1 trials of a possible anti-AIDS vaccine that seeks to produce mucosal antibodies that can resist HIV.

A new study on mice has shown that progesterone, when taken with estrogen has no clear preventive benefits against Alzheimer’s disease.

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A new research has challenged the belief that fractures resulting from major trauma are not related to osteoporosis.

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Researchers at the University of Vienna in Austria have shown dogs possess the ability to classify complex colour photographs and place them into categories in the same manner as humans do.

Using PET imaging technology, researchers have, for the first time, seen hyperactive cancer genes’ activity inside breast tumours from outside the body in laboratory animals.