Get your refreshing copy of Taste&Flair this weekend with The Malta Independent on Sunday!   It's our jam packed bumper 144 page spring edition. In this issue, we feature a house in...

It sounds like science fiction, but a cap-like device that makes electric fields to fight cancer improved survival for the first time in more than a decade for people with deadly brain tumors, final...

Should middle-aged men get routine blood tests for prostate cancer? An influential health panel that once said no now says maybe. It says certain men may benefit as long as they understand the...

A paralyzed man was able to feed himself for the first time in eight years, after doctors implanted sensors in his brain that sent signals to his arm. Bill Kochevar was paralyzed from the...

Lack of sleep and concentration, dizziness, tiredness, headaches, worrying thoughts, frustration, helplessness; these are pretty normal reactions of students to examinations. Which student does not...

Bacteria live on everyone's skin, and new research shows some friendly germs produce natural antibiotics that ward off their disease-causing cousins. Now scientists are mixing the good bugs into...

Contrary to some political claims, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved more drugs, and two to three months faster on average, than European regulators did in recent years, new research...

A French teen who was given gene therapy for sickle cell disease more than two years ago now has enough properly working red blood cells to dodge the effects of the disorder, researchers...

MARION AND TABITHA BRODERICK It's clear that Marion and Tabitha Broderick have mom Sarah Jessica Parker's fashion gene. The twins both sported different floral (but equally adorable) frocks,...