Despite the recent good news that cancer incidence and death rates for men and women in the United States continue to decline, cancer is projected to become the leading cause of death worldwide in the year 2010 and low- and

Breast-specific gamma imaging is effective in the detection of cancers not found on mammograms or by clinical exam.

Researchers are reporting progress toward a simple, low-cost method to make "smart fabrics," electronic textiles capable of detecting diseases, monitoring heart rates, and other vital signs. These straight-out-of-science-fiction-fibers are made of carbon nanotubes.

Ventricular assist devices, or VADs -- surgically-placed mechanical pumps that can support failing hearts or buy time to transplant -- are associated with high hospital costs and high rates of early death among Medicare recipients, say researchers.

Cancer will overtake heart disease as the world's top killer by 2010, part of a trend that should more than double global cancer cases and deaths by 2030, international health experts reported Tuesday.

Galangal looks very much like its relative the ginger root, but has a paler pinkish color. It cannot be eaten raw and is usually ground up with other ingredients to make a paste. There are two varieties of galangal, the

With Christmas fast approaching, night workers (prostitutes) in Koforidua, the capital of the Eastern Region, have stepped up their nocturnal activities in order to make ends meet, and cash to celebrate the religious festivity that has spread over the four

THE NRM chief whip, Kabakumba Matsiko, has said government efforts to fight HIV/AIDS are being bogged down by married couples who engage in extra-marital affairs.

A major breakthrough may have been recorded in the efforts to eradicate malaria in vulnerable regions of the world with the discovery of vaccine capable of providing both infant and young children with significant protection against malaria.

Members of the Edo State Hospital Management Board and top politicians in the state are locked in battle over the choice of a substantive Director of Hospital Services/Chief Executive to oversee all hospitals owned by the state government.

House of Representatives Committee on Health, after a look at the poor state of facilities in Teaching Hospitals across the country, has stated that the institutions are not well funded.

THE high prevalence rate of HIV/AIDS among married couples has been attributed to domestic violence.

Women Members of Parliament have appealed to the Ministry of Health to increase facilities used in prevention and operation of obstetric fistula cases.

African countries have been urged to involve local communities in the fight against neglected tropical diseases like river blindness.

A CABS branch in Harare had to be closed for about three hours yesterday morning after a suspected cholera patient messed her clothes and the floor of the banking hall.

A TOTAL of 350 health centres have been accredited across the country to provide anti-retroviral therapy (ART).

Bayelsa State government is to spend N700m to expand the free healthcare service to cover all the local government areas of the state just as the government owned 500-bed General Hospital started about six years ago is to be completed

Wasiu Aminu was scared. Never mind the fact that as a trained Mobile Policeman, fear ought be the farthest thought on his mind. But the young father was no longer in control of his emotions. When Good Health Weekly encountered