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The diabetes drug Byetta was linked to four more deaths in patients with pancreatitis, adding to two deaths announced by federal regulators last week.

BOWEL cancer screening could save about 150 lives a year in Scotland, research revealed yesterday.

STROKE victims could be "tricked" into getting better with a new virtual reality physiotherapy treatment developed by Portsmouth University.

The nation's poverty rate held steady as median household income edged upward last year, according to annual census data released yesterday. The Census Bureau also reported that the number of people without health insurance decreased by more than 1 million people in 2007.

Novavax said yesterday that its bird flu vaccine elicited a robust immune response in humans, moving the biotech a step closer to licensing its pandemic vaccine production system.

Urodynamix Technologies Ltd. (TSX-V:URO) announced that it has received a non-refundable financial contribution from the National Research Council Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP) to help accelerate the development and commercialization of new NIRS technology for the detection of prostate cancer during the digital rectal examination, or DRE.

With hurricane season upon us, many wonder if the roof over their heads will hold firm in the face of high winds. This week, inaugural tests at The University of Western Ontario's 'Three Little Pigs' project at The Insurance Research Lab for Better Homes will begin to provide answers as researchers 'raze the roof'.

Dr. Weller was a tropical-medicine specialist whose tissue-culture research in 1949 made development of the Salk and Sabin polio vaccines possible.

TERMINALLY ill elderly patients are being given the right to die in their care home or hospice instead of being rushed to hospital for emergency treatment, under a scheme bein

A FIVE-YEAR strategy to address the country's sight loss "time-bomb" is to be launched in the Capital.