Women with type 1 diabetes who cut back on insulin face a threefold higher risk of early death and higher rates of disease complications as compared to

Diabetic patients could be relieved off from the regular insulin injections they have to take, studies say. The successful regeneration of the cells destroyed

There are no indications that bird flu is becoming a bigger problem in China despite the deaths of three people from the disease this year, the World Health Organisation said Wednesday.

Scripps Research Institute scientists have come up with a novel two-punch strategy to combat HIV at the earliest stage of infection.

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An operation to boost the oxygen levels of an infant went awry in the UK because of long delays during treatment, and it was an Indian doctor who had messed it up.

A small US biotech company has claimed that it has removed a major safety obstacle to using “reprogrammed” human stem cells, which pose a risk of turning cancerous.

AMA President, Dr Rosanna Capolingua, warned today that Australia risked
squandering the benefits of the increased numbers of medical students now in

Repetitive strain injury (RSI) must be taken more seriously than it has been so far, UK experts say. For the RSI rates have been rising in recent years

From 2001 to 2005, the death rate for minorities in Forsyth County, N.C., was 34% higher among minorities than whites, according to a report from the

Increasingly autonomous, gun-totting robots developed for warfare could easily fall into the hands of terrorists and may one day unleash a robot arms