Gene therapy devised at University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, increases the rate of survival for patients having end-stage head and neck cancer, a study has said.

The embryonic stem-cell treatment administered to a paralyzed Aussie man that enabled him to breathe on his own after 14 years by Dr Geeta Shroff, has raised concerns among Brit scientists.

Regenerative medicine could help re-grow lost body parts, it is hoped. Last week in an operating room in Texas, a wounded American soldier underwent a history-making procedure.

For the first time in the world a government is ready to publish comparative figures for medical teams at rival hospitals. Death rates of patients undergoing

Hospital workers in Wolverhampton’s New Cross hospital in Britain were stunned, when a couple who traveled to India for IVF treatment, dumped their newborn

Medical blunders abound in public hospitals in the state of Victoria in Australia. One in ten patients suffer in the process - including having the wrong

Men who take regular moderate exercise have a 34 per cent lower chance of being killed by cancer than those who do not, according to a study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet.

Tobacco carcinogens cause lung cancer in an indirect way, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Medicine’s Center of Excellence in

Long-term hormone replacement therapy (HRT) may boost risk of breast cancer by 37 percent, a new study has found.

The study recruited 3,464 breast

A new study has said that estrogen, the female sex hormone, plays an important role in the development of 50 percent of all prostate cancers.

The researchers, led by Dr.