Stockholm: Harald zur Hausen of Germany, and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier of France on Monday won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2008....

New Delhi: GE Healthcare on Friday evening announced the launch of a new technique for early diagnosis of urinary bladder cancer....

Sydney: Scientists have identified 64 proteins believed to be linked with well-known cancer kingpin urokinase plasminogen activator receptor or uPAR. ...

Beijing: Women in China and other developing countries could benefit from a faster and cheaper test which detects a virus directly related to cervical cancer....

London: If patients are administered clot dissolving drugs within four and a half hours of brain stroke, they may suffer no or only slight impairment, says a new study. Earlier, the upper limit for gi...

Washington: Vitamin C, in pre-clinical studies, was found to erode the effectiveness of anti-cancer drugs, according to a new study....

Washington: Depression was linked to a higher death rate from all causes during a two-year study period of a large group of Medicare beneficiaries. ...

Washington: The human brain, just like muscles, works harder during strenuous exercise and uses lactate rather than glucose as fuel, according to a new study by Dutch scientists. ...

Washington: When a cell's chromosomes lose their ends, it usually self-destructs to stem genetic damage. If it doesn't it becomes cancerous. ...

Washington: Female mice fed high fat diets were more likely to have oversized offspring, because fat causes the placenta to go into "overdrive" by providing too many nutrients to the foetus. ...