Iraqi president Jalal Talabani is expected to undergo a medical check-up during a three-week visit to the US.

Gerald Ford, who picked up the pieces of Richard Nixon’s scandal-shattered White House to become the only unelected president in America’s history, has died at 93, his wife said today.

Former US President Gerald Ford underwent an angioplasty procedure at the Mayo Clinic, his spokeswoman said today.

AMERICAN doctors are testing a radical new way to help smokers quit — an injection that “immunises” them against the nicotine rush that fuels their addiction.

US congressman Patrick Kennedy is going into rehabilitation for addiction to prescription pain medication after a highly-publicised car crash in Washington.

A decade-long study comparing conventional colon cancer surgery with “keyhole” surgery found identical success rates, disproving fears that tumours would be more likely to return if surgeons did not open up the patient’s belly for a full view.

Researchers were so excited by early results from a study on preventing the recurrence of breast cancer they halted their work so more women could benefit from the findings.