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Doctors will decide next Tuesday whether to operate on two conjoined twins born in a London hospital last week.

Some 15,000 soldiers are heading home to the Fort Campbell this sprawling base after spending more than a year at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and military health officials are bracing for a surge in brain injuries and psychological problems among those troops.

SAPPORO, Japan -- Criminology is being stood on its head in fast-graying Japan.

(Economic & Social Research Council) A major reform of the way that NHS hospitals pay for legal liability insurance has led to improvements in patient safety, according to research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. Offering discounts on insurance premiums to hospitals that meet certain targets has led to falls in MRSA infection rates.

(Fred Hutchinson cancer Research Center) A new method of characterizing breast lesions found during an MRI exam could result in fewer biopsies of benign tumors with the benefits of reduced pain and expense for patients and providers, according to a paper that will be presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America.

BEIJING (Reuters) - The new face of AIDS in China is a shy man with a heavy provincial accent, a weathered face and the rough hands of a manual worker.

THEY charge in excess of £400 a week but are accused of giving elderly residents crumbling accommodation, poorly trained carers and inadequate facilities in return. Today, Sc

SCIENTISTS may have found a way of analysing breast lumps that could reduce the number of biopsies on benign tumours, it emerged yesterday.

SCOTLAND is planning to introduce universal screening for HIV, it was claimed last night.

As a healthcare-associated infection, Acinetobacter baumannii is becoming a more serious influence as antibiotic resistances rates rise, and policy must encourage strict hygeine compliance and careful drug choice to prevent major outbreaks in the future, according to a review released on November 18, the The Lancet Infectious Diseases.