The family of a 6-year-old girl has expressed its delight after a hospital in the US agreed to carry out what may be a life-changing operation.

People who suffer from disrupted sleep may have memory problems in later life, new research suggests.

A single gene may provide important clues to the causes of some types of deafness, research suggests.

People who take regular exercise can cut their risk of colon cancer by 24%, researchers said today.

A new US study says about 60% of the genes in chickens are closely related to those found in humans.

Scientists have identified a gene that appears to be linked to both alcoholism and depression, a finding that may one day help identify those at higher risk for the diseases and guide new treatments.

SURVIVING cancer is heavily influenced by a patient’s overall state of health, new research showed yesterday. A study found the worse were patients’ non-cancer ailments, or comorbidities, the less survival chances they had.

Drugs commonly used to anaesthetise children have been shown to cause brain damage and learning problems in infant rats, a new study said today.

SUPERMAN actor Christopher Reeve, who was paralysed in a riding accident seven years ago, can now move some of his fingers and toes, the star’s doctors have said.

Doctors say Christopher Reeve can now move some of his fingers and toes.