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(American Association for cancer Research) Radiation from the atomic bomb blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945, likely rearranged chromosomes in some survivors who later developed papillary thyroid cancer as adults, according to Japanese researchers.

(American Academy of Otolaryngology -- Head and Neck Surgery) The American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery Foundation will issue the first comprehensive clinical guidelines to help health-care practitioners identify patients with cerumen (commonly referred to as earwax) impaction. The guidelines emphasize evidence-based management of cerumen impaction by clinicians, and inform patients of the purpose of ear wax in hearing health.

In the first test of its powers under a sweeping product-safety law, the Consumer product Safety Commission yesterday directed retailers to pull bassinets linked to the deaths of two infants off store shelves and give customers a refund.

The government must provide more money for Britain's six million unpaid carers, who save the taxpayer £87bn a year, MPs say.

GROWING up in Calton, a deprived pocket in the east end of Glasgow, Steven Francis Hewitt never knew of bad habits. For him, the culture of pubs, takeaway food and palls of ci

THE consultant with NHS Dumfries and Galloway comments on Scotland's obesity crisis following the publication of a "fat map", which showed Shetland has the highest

AN INVESTIGATION is under way into seven cases of E coli in a single Aberdeenshire village.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scientists for the first time have peered into people's brains to directly measure the ebb and flow of a substance notorious for its role in Alzheimer's disease....

Elective surgery waiting lists in Tasmania have blown out again.

SafeWork SA is investigating an accident in the city after a steel beam fell out of a sling 12 metres above the ground.