Health/Science

LONDON—Hundreds of women in Britain have complained to the medical regulator after becoming pregnant despite using a contraceptive implant that is supposed to work for years. But the implant’s maker, Merck & Co., says the […] […]

PHARMACEUTICAL giant Johnson & Johnson said it is partnering with US doctors to improve a blood test that could replace biopsies and transform the field of cancer treatment. The Circulating Tumor Cell (CTC) technology, which […] […]

WASHINGTON – Loud snoring may do more than irritate a spouse: It can signal sleep apnoea, depriving a person of enough sleep to trigger a car crash, even a heart attack. Now scientists are beginning […] […]

In the absence of indisputable scientific proof that herbal medicine works, there are stories like Xiaoyan Ma’s. Ma, 65, once a philosophy professor at China’s Kaifeng University, lives in a nursing home in Toronto’s Wexford […] […]

Jade Morris brings a cigarette to her lips and inhales deeply as she looks over the new warning labels that will cover three-quarters of cigarette packages. A woman in bed, dying from lung cancer caused […] […]

The lights were on inside the school. The parking lot seemed dark. There was a public meeting, I thought; tonight, I thought. Where is the public? There seemed to be only me. I tried a […] […]

PREGNANT mothers in Denmark who regularly used mobile phones were more likely to have children with behavioural problems, according to a new study. The risk was higher when the kids themselves began using mobile phones […] […]

A SMALL, daily dose of aspirin significantly diminishes the risk of death from a wide range of cancers, according to a landmark study released today. Earlier work by the same team of scientists showed that […] […]

A PREGNANT Israeli woman who was about to have a baby by Caesarean was accidentally set on fire by a surgeon. Details of the incident – which occurred in an operating room at the Sheba […] […]

Complacency among young people is causing a new surge of the AIDS epidemic in the United States and European nations like Britain and Germany, a top UN expert said ahead of today’s World AIDS Day. […] […]