To investigate tumors, pathologists currently rely on labor-intensive microscopic examination, using century-old cell-staining methods that can take days to complete and may give false readings.

It's been assumed that U.S. life expectancy would rise indefinitely, but a new data analysis, published as a special report in the March 17 New England Journal of Medicine, suggests that this trend is about to reverse itself -- due

The eye is greater than the gut. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign report dramatic evidence of the importance of visual cues in the control of food intake in the current issue of Obesity Research, a leading nutrition

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) is cutting off Africa's access to affordable life-saving drugs. India, in order to comply with WTO rules, is putting in place a law to stop its companies from manufacturing generic versions of patented medicines.

Seasonal Affective Disorder, is a form of depression associated with seasonal variation in light.

A new study has attributed the spread HIV/Aids in Nyanza Province to risky sexual behavior among public transport crew.

Workers at a Mombasa plastic manufacturing firm will undergo a medical examination following fears that some of them might have contracted a lung disease.

Top officials at the Kenyatta National Hospital are embroiled in a dispute over a Sh300-million hospital computerisation programme.

AIDS is threatening Kenya's money-lending institutions which are supporting about 16 percent of the country's 30 million people.