Researchers are reporting a key advance in using stem cells to repair hearts damaged by heart attacks. In a study, stem cells donated by strangers proved as safe and effective as patients' own...

    GlaxoSmithKline (Malta) Ltd is introducing a Dental Week initiative between 5 and 9 November, to raise awareness about the importance of taking care of one’s teeth. A number...

    The future of a pricey malaria program meant to provide cheap drugs for poor patients may be in jeopardy after health officials clashed over its effectiveness in two new...

    Breast cancer screening for women over 50 saves lives, an independent panel in Britain has concluded, confirming findings in U.S. and other studies.   But that screening...

    Most patients getting chemotherapy for incurable lung or colon cancers mistakenly believe that the treatment can cure them rather than just buy them some more time or ease their...

    Aspirin, one of the world's oldest and cheapest drugs, has shown remarkable promise in treating colon cancer in people with mutations in a gene that's thought to play a role...

    Scientists have created embryos with genes from one man and two women, using a provocative technique that could someday be used to prevent babies from inheriting certain rare...

    The black mold creeping into the spines of hundreds of Americans who got tainted shots for back pain marks uncharted medical territory.   Never before has this particular...